HI guys, my name is James....
I am currently listed on Thumbtack for computer repair and website desing work. Lately, I have been getting about 7-10 requests a week for data recovery work. So, I started doing some homework....I have some questions for those of you who know more about this than me.....I want to start doing data recovery.....The first step I took was to download all the free data recovery programs I could find....Also, I see that some of the clients were looking to recovery about 2 TB worth of info from their drives. I have one lined up, no prob. An external 2 TB hard drive for about $85.00 My questions are these:
Should I only accept drives that my computer can read and identify? for example: if i hook up a drive and my computer cant see that drive, is it going to be harder to do? Also, I'm getting a lot of requests where people are saying that their drives are clicking.....does that pretty much mean that their drive is failing? I'm not willing to change out circuit boards and all that. I just want to make this simple and when I hook up their drive, be able to see it, and then run the software to recover data. Also, should I stick with 60 dollars for the first 10 gigs and .25 cents for every gig after that? Should I say that if I dont recover any data, there is no charge? OR should I say that even if I dont recover anything, that there will be a minimum charge of say....$25 or sumptin....I really need some good opinions because these jobs are falling in my lap....Thanks everyone....