Anyone have your hard drive disintegrate? I'm wondering how much to recover data on my HD.?

Hello, I understand hard drives are mortal creatures, and yes, I should have backed up my data. I have a 120 Gb external hard drive that went kaput. I tried Norton, Data Rescue, Disk Warrior (I'm using a mac) -- nothing. If you have any further suggestions on retrieving my data myself, even better. Otherwise, I think I'm screwed and might look into the services of a data recovery firm (but I'm a broke college student not looking to shell out a ton of cash). I'm hoping to get a ballpark of how much this might cost me. THANKS

Answers:
most hard drive recoverys start at $150-$500 and go up depending on the amount of data recovered. Try OnTrack for recovery also. A trick I use a lot is to wrap the drive in a towel and freeze it (yes, in a freezer) for 12-18 hours. Take it out and immediately plug it in and see if you can retrieve the data. Had to freeze on twice to get it all but it works about 50% of the time. Good Luck.
I used a data recovery service one time for a client who lost critical data on a laptop hard drive. They fully recovered 99.946% of files from the drive. It cost about $1,500 and was well worth it to my client.
Most don't check external drives, however a free one does, it's called Recuva.
Disintegrate? Was Marvin the Martian involved? The motor stops turning properly or the arm with the read write needle deal wheres out try tapping it or shaking it
To select data recovery service and data recovery company is really confusing. If you want to do data recovery by yourself I suggest you to get free sources from websites. One of the interesting and really helpful source for hard drive data recovery is http://datarecoveryguru.net/32/hard-driv... where you can also find more information about data recovery service, technique and data recovery tips. I found it really helpful.

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