2 TB hard drive broken

[Uzoma]

My friend dropped his hard drive - 2 TB worth of material broken.

He's been quoted a grand to get all the materials transferred over to a new drive. Just wondering if anyone here can recommend someone that can do it for less. He's pretty gutted, by the way, as you can expect.

Thanks all.

[VHG]

You should never have all your backups on just one drive.

Backups should be in multiple places, on CD/DVD, on another computer, on 2 or 3 external hard disks, and up in the "cloud" on one of the web based backup services (Google, Microsoft, Dropbox etc etc - there are loads of them).

There is a computeractive magazine out the moment about "The cloud" and it lists all the different companies who will rent you disk space on their "cloud" servers for safe keeping.

Does not answer your question may help save others from your friends grief.

[methyl]

Not cheap, not guaranteed, but a reputable company based in Epsom UK:
http://www.krollontrack.co.uk/

[wildwood]

That seems far too dear. Get 4 or 5 quotes for him.

[Uzoma]

That's the plan wildwood but from where . . .? Thanks methyl.

[Bigeye74]

If it's a 2TB drive it's probably a SATA drive or maybe 2 in 1 box. I doubt the drive is damaged, it's usually the control electronics in the box. You can buy a SATA adapter kit from Amazon for £22. Take the drive apart and run the drives with the adapter kit.