Any chance of partition recovery?

[techyguy717]

Sorry for late update.

Information Recovered. Turns out both of my USB to SATA adapters I was using were not compatible with this model of hard drive.

After research, bought and used R-Studio to recover all info, except a few files with unrecoverable sectors.

Customer did not want to pay $300 or more for data recovery. I let them know the risk and had them sign a waver.

 

[Larry Sabo]

Which version of R-studio did you buy? I find the $899 Tech edition prohibitively expensive, but the other versions don't allow use for commercial gain, according to the EULA.

 

[techyguy717]

I missed that, it cannot be used for commercial gain. I know that I will have to purchase something else, and apologize to the community for missing this in the, R-Studio EULA Considering I used the software once, it barely paid for itself.

Options:
What reasonable software can be used for low cost data recovery of faulty sectors and partitions, for clients who's information isn't important, and can't afford much?

Thoughts
Who can use the lower cost versions of R-Studio? Only an I.T. person would know how to use it. Wouldn't using this software save a company money, therefor allowing the savings to be financially gainful?

Example:
Company uses R-Studio to recover their employee's lost info, instead of mailing drive somewhere else. They save money. This information recovery makes the company commercially gainful.

I also, see that the Technical Edition is for Data an Forensic Professionals, able to be installed on unlimited computers, which I am not.

 

[Larry Sabo]

http://www.technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?p=410471#post410471

 

[lcoughey]

If you have a client who wants windows 8 and office 2013, but don't want to pay more than $50, what do you tell them?

 

[glennd]

ROTFLMAO!!!! Thanks. Nice end to a long week.

I guess some of these others figure that when they get their Master's of Science from Google that a PHD from Youtube is the way to go.

I laughed so hard i was nearly crying!!