We may not like to make a sweeping generalization and call most companies offering hard disk data recovery services dishonest but that is in fact what they are. If you have accidentally deleted files from your computer’s internal disk or if your PC has suffered a crash and the internal drive will no longer work in conjunction with your Windows operating system to start your PC, you may have considered using a hard disk data recovery services company. These companies ask you to remove your computer’s hard drive and send it to them. They claim to then take that hardware and examine it in a special ISO certified clean room. In fact many will claim they are cleaning the drive. In rare instances amounting to less than 1% of all HDD failures, service labs do dismantle the hardware so as to affect temporary repairs.
But, in the other 99% of all cases, these labs are simply hooking your hard drive up by means of a cable to a working computer. They then direct that PC to open your computer’s internal drive which has been piggybacked onto their working operating system. They copy all of the files from the unit on to a large external storage. The process of copying out an entire 250 GB HDD takes around 3 hours. The technician does not have to supervise the process and can be recovering data from many drives at once if they choose. The average cost for completing this process is around $1000. The reason we say that these companies are dishonest is that anyone, even those with no previous computer technical experience, can use FileFinder to accomplish the same task in the same amount of time at a cost of less than $40.00.
