Barnabas Data Recovery

They promised they would return my drive and refund my money if they couldn't retrieve my data. They did neither. They made excuse after excuse, and told like after like, and I still don't have my drive back after months of attempts, and to get my money back I had to have my credit card issuer to a charge back. And then Barnabas tried to charge my card again! I guess they hoped I wouldn't notice it, but my bank caught it. This attempt to charge my card without authorization is fraud and grand larceny, and I'm going to file a criminal complaint with the local police. Go to them at your own peril: you'll never see your data, drive or money again if they have their way.

My external hard drive fell on the ground and got damaged. I searched around and Barnabas offered the lowest prices for hard drive recovery. I also like the fact that I won't get charged anything unless most of my data is recovered. I dropped off my external hard drive with dock at their location, and Joe got back to me pretty quick with an update. He said they will keep trying and let me know how it goes. Then after 2 weeks (bad snow weather) I heard back that the drive was beyond repair and I could pick it up when ready.
I thought highly of the company until I went to pick up what I dropped off. When I arrived, I was given the dock, the drive that was inside the enclosure case, but no enclosure. I mean, I brought them an external drive, why was I getting an internal drive in return? Before I left I mentioned it to them, Joe came out and seemed puzzled. I told him the dock plugs into the enclosure, not the hard drive, so if I dropped off a dock, there must have been an enclosure, or why in the world would I give them a dock. He said he will look around and mail it to me.
It has been 6 months and no word about it and nothing in the mail. I could have at least used the enclosure by putting a new internal drive inside it.

I got some recommendations through Angie's List. Barnabas Data Recovery had him go out and get something to put the retrieved data on. They got all of the data off of the phone and put it on the device. They fulfilled all of their obligations.

It went very well overall. I would recommend them to others looking for a cheaper alternative to data recovery.