Re: hard drive recovery
Other than the illegality of it, probably not. They're going to have to look at some of the data to see if it's been recovered or if it's gibberish, and since it's getting recreated things like access timestamps wouldn't help you in figuring out if they had or not.
However, a lot of data recovery firms do most of their work for SMEs, and so finding a reputable one probably isn't that hard. If you're a business, you're not going to throw a couple of server disks full of customer data off to some placement student (in theory).
Sorry I can't help on costs, though phoning a couple firms up and asking will normally yield a consultation fee if nothing more substantial. In fact, the consultation thing might be a good idea, since at the cost of a short-term investigation into how viable getting your files back is, you gain the peace of mind that a) they still exist and b) it's worth paying more money to recover them.
__________________
You're now playing ketchup
|