Travel Technology - Hard drive recovery

I have a certifiably dead 160 gig ide hard drive that I need to have recovered. It has about 20 gig total used, I need about 6 gig recovered. It is a Seagate out of warranty. I realize I may have to pay for all of it to be recovered.

Anyone used a reliable service they can recommend?

I do not need advice on backing up, and if you feel compelled to give it, I am more than happy to give you my 80 year old mothers phone number and you can explain it to her. (it is from her PC) As it is, she says you never call........

I have a certifiably dead 160 gig ide hard drive that I need to have recovered. It has about 20 gig total used, I need about 6 gig recovered. It is a Seagate out of warranty. I realize I may have to pay for all of it to be recovered.

Anyone used a reliable service they can recommend?

I have used both Total Recall (http://www.totalrecall.com/) and Ontrack (http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/) for years in a professional capacity. Neither are cheap.

I have a certifiably dead 160 gig ide hard drive that I need to have recovered. It has about 20 gig total used, I need about 6 gig recovered. It is a Seagate out of warranty. I realize I may have to pay for all of it to be recovered.

Anyone used a reliable service they can recommend?

if software recovery tools can't recover it (and be sure it's not making things worse in the process), then i'd call drivesavers. they're not cheap, but they are one of the best recovery companies around.

http://www.drivesavers.com/

and some examples of drives that they've recovered:

http://www.drivesavers.com/fun/museum-of-disk-asters.html