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Website: www.chicagodatarecoverycorp.com

Phone: 1-212-427-1806

Email: support@datarecoverycorp.com

Address: 1365 Wiley Road Suite 155

City: Schaumburg

Zip: 60159

State: IL, Illinois

Country: USA

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Name: WJet Date: 7/15/2009 Comments: Total Rip Off!!! If you have a clicking drive don't even bother sending it to them. Their marketing is to say that they can try recover and say they have a lab to repair the drive so it's readable. Total bull** , got my drive back and it's still clicking so they pretty much did not fix it. Also once they say they send it to the lab, they ask you to buy a drive so that they can transfer the data to the new drive. Well, once you buy the drive you will get a call several weeks later and they will tell you they only recovered useless data. The worst part for me was that the drive I bought which I rarely used has already crashed within 6 months!!! Report Abuse: Report Here Rating:**
Name: AnotherVictim Date: 5/13/2009 Comments: Please be cautious when working with this company. Note that their terms and conditions are NOT available on the website (link is dead) nor provided when initial contract is signed. In all my years in working in the IT industry, I have never seen such a blatan disregard for customers, this data recovery place really does not care about it's clients and is in business for a quick buck. Several discs were sent for recovery. From the start of the project, communication was misleading, difficult, and inaccurate. My team did not receive return calls or updates when requested. We received information that was negated by other operators. We were told discs shipped, when they had not. And the company wasn't able to see anything on our discs even after sending to a specialist in Canada. I have no confidence in this company for honesty nor technical competence. Upon receiving the discs back, thankfully, we purchased components on ebay and were able to download most of our data. My team spent well over 10 working days and $400 (to include freight) waiting for the "experts" to tell us they couldn't do anything. Report Abuse: Report Here Rating:
Name: cdhvic Date: 4/22/2009 Comments: Chicago Data Recovery Corp or Corporation WILL SCAM YOU OUT OF AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE! My whole data recovery horror story or nightmare starts out that I accidently deleted a user profile and panicked because it had important health information on my hard drive, so I search data recovery and file recovery on Google and come up with www.chicagodatarecoverycorp.com as a sponsored link. I decide to call them after seeing a slick looking website, and talked to a dimwit there, I forgot his name but I think it was Kevin? This guy at first seemed like he knew what he was talking about and I was definitely swayed by his argument that I should bring in my hard drive for an evaluation (even though I clearly told him that I accidently erased a profile) so why would I need a diagnostic done? Anyways hindsight being 20/20 because obviously when I walked into their office I knew there was no data recovery lab there whatsoever, but I did not think I needed one and that this was basically a normal everyday occurence with customers who erased data, I mean this was a data recovery company right? I only wish I had checked this website before even calling them... Anyways I was gullible and desperate so I paid $300 to get my data back quicker or speed up their data recovery service, and my rep comes back on the phone with a ridiculous price! This guy says that the price to recover my DELETED files would come to around $1800! I mean wow, its not like there was any intense work. Here is the exact email that I recieved: Dear XXXX, I wanted to inform you that we have received your hard drive and have performed full diagnostics, as well as established a price quote. Due to your drive having erased data, approximately 20-25 hours of engineering time will need to be done. Clean room facility time, custom programming time, and copying time is all involved in this price quote. We however feel very confident that a complete recovery is very likely. For a full 100% successful recovery, my manager gave a price quote of $1450. Please let me know how you would like to proceed. Thank you. Tony www.chicagodatarecoverycorp.com I proceeded to tell them to hurry up and finish the recovery and paid them over $300 to get started as a deposit (which no one mentioned to me was non refundable) Now I would like to point some things wrong with this already, but I did not see when I initially told them to start my recovery, but my tech friend did after he saw that I was upset with this case. Since I deleted my data, no clean room was needed for my case (unless of course these idiots like to make so called "data recovery" programs in a clean room, which would make it harder to type and see) Also I very much doubt that these data recovery scamsters even have a clean room because I saw the layout of their building and WOW could they not fit a true clean room in there. I work in the medical industry and know what a clean room is, and it would cost them atleast $800 per filter, which goes like 2-3 times a month, plus a clean room costs like half a mill to actually create, and they did not have a clean room. I digress.. I paid them their $300, and told them to start the work. They said that the original $300 that I paid would make the work go faster (about 2-3 days) but i recieved no phone calls or status updates from these data recovery frauds for well over a week, and everytime I called them they told me they needed more time. Anyways to cut through all the data recovery terms that they tried to confuse me with, something about how the profile was erased was making it harder for them? I mean I guess I did something unique? (sarcasm) After half a month of demanding to get my hard drive back, these guys told me that I would need to sign a form for them to give me my own property back? That is like stealing! I paid them to perform data recovery on my hard drive and got nothing in return, and now want to try a reputable company to see if they can actually do data recovery on my hard drive and these guys wont give it back! I have alot of friends in the greater Chicago area, and have already told them to spread word of this data recovery scheme that ChicagoDataRecoveryCorp runs and to stay far away from it. I have also alerted the proper authorities like the US Attorney General and the BBB and my credit card company. I am disputing the charges. I think we should all get together and teach these data recovery frauds a lesson. We should all complain to our legislators and the BBB and the attorney general and the local media. I have tried to get my story out everywhere, so that no one gets jaded like I did because I was desperate to get my data back. Also I have found these guys operate under Data Recovery Corp, with a website www.datarecoverycorp.com in Cleveland and Florida Data Corp under website www.floridadatacorp.com and in New York under www.datarecoverynewyork.com and in Los Angeles as California Data Corp with a website www.californiadatacorp.com. I have also sent an email to this website to lump all the complaints together. Please stay away if you need data recovery because these guys are pure scam artists! Report Abuse: Report Here Rating:
Name: pteargryfin Date: 2/20/2009 Comments: This company uses tactics straight from the textbook for used-car salesmen. They didn't stop trying to scam me from the moment I called them to the moment I picked up my (thankfully unmolested) hard drive. I dealt almost entirely with "Tony" who tried to rob me in the following ways: - he tried to get me to pay for expedited problem analysis when they had already analyzed the problem - he made up some phony story about how the logical damage to the drive would require hours of "custom programming" that would bring the total bill to $1,485 (I was able to eventually solve the problem with non-custom recovery software) - I balked at the $1,485, so Tony asked what my "target price" was (this is when I really knew I was being scammed). By "some miracle" he was able to meet my suggestion of $500 as long as I signed up for 3 months of their online data backup service. - When I showed up to pick up my hard drive the next day (Tony said it would be ready for me), the receptionist claimed I needed to give them 24 hours notice so they could ship it back from their "clean room" in Chicago (I was at the Schaumburg, IL location). THEY DON'T HAVE A CLEAN ROOM IN CHICAGO! - I demanded that she produce my hard drive or I wouldn't leave. I demanded to speak to Tony. He put me on hold while he was apparently communicating with the receptionist through IM. They got their stories straight and told me a courier would get it there in an hour and a half. I knew it was in the back room at that location, but I decided to let them save face from their lies. I came back in an hour and the receptionist handed the drive to me (mind you, this was during rush hour; there is no way anyone could get from Chicago to Schaumburg in one hour during that time of night in light snow). Bottom line: This company will rip you off. They will lie to you. You cannot trust a word they say. Do you want to trust them with your precious data or give them any money? I don't either. Report Abuse: Report Here Rating:

Name: WJet
Date: 7/15/2009
Comments:
Total Rip Off!!! If you have a clicking drive don't even bother sending it to them. Their marketing is to say that they can try recover and say they have a lab to repair the drive so it's readable. Total bull**** , got my drive back and it's still clicking so they pretty much did not fix it. Also once they say they send it to the lab, they ask you to buy a drive so that they can transfer the data to the new drive. Well, once you buy the drive you will get a call several weeks later and they will tell you they only recovered useless data. The worst part for me was that the drive I bought which I rarely used has already crashed within 6 months!!!
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Name: AnotherVictim
Date: 5/13/2009
Comments:
Please be cautious when working with this company. Note that their terms and conditions are NOT available on the website (link is dead) nor provided when initial contract is signed. In all my years in working in the IT industry, I have never seen such a blatan disregard for customers, this data recovery place really does not care about it's clients and is in business for a quick buck. Several discs were sent for recovery. From the start of the project, communication was misleading, difficult, and inaccurate. My team did not receive return calls or updates when requested. We received information that was negated by other operators. We were told discs shipped, when they had not. And the company wasn't able to see anything on our discs even after sending to a specialist in Canada. I have no confidence in this company for honesty nor technical competence. Upon receiving the discs back, thankfully, we purchased components on ebay and were able to download most of our data. My team spent well over 10 working days and $400 (to include freight) waiting for the "experts" to tell us they couldn't do anything.
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Name: cdhvic
Date: 4/22/2009
Comments:
Chicago Data Recovery Corp or Corporation WILL SCAM YOU OUT OF AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE! My whole data recovery horror story or nightmare starts out that I accidently deleted a user profile and panicked because it had important health information on my hard drive, so I search data recovery and file recovery on Google and come up with www.chicagodatarecoverycorp.com as a sponsored link. I decide to call them after seeing a slick looking website, and talked to a dimwit there, I forgot his name but I think it was Kevin? This guy at first seemed like he knew what he was talking about and I was definitely swayed by his argument that I should bring in my hard drive for an evaluation (even though I clearly told him that I accidently erased a profile) so why would I need a diagnostic done? Anyways hindsight being 20/20 because obviously when I walked into their office I knew there was no data recovery lab there whatsoever, but I did not think I needed one and that this was basically a normal everyday occurence with customers who erased data, I mean this was a data recovery company right? I only wish I had checked this website before even calling them... Anyways I was gullible and desperate so I paid $300 to get my data back quicker or speed up their data recovery service, and my rep comes back on the phone with a ridiculous price! This guy says that the price to recover my DELETED files would come to around $1800! I mean wow, its not like there was any intense work. Here is the exact email that I recieved: Dear XXXX, I wanted to inform you that we have received your hard drive and have performed full diagnostics, as well as established a price quote. Due to your drive having erased data, approximately 20-25 hours of engineering time will need to be done. Clean room facility time, custom programming time, and copying time is all involved in this price quote. We however feel very confident that a complete recovery is very likely. For a full 100% successful recovery, my manager gave a price quote of $1450. Please let me know how you would like to proceed. Thank you. Tony www.chicagodatarecoverycorp.com I proceeded to tell them to hurry up and finish the recovery and paid them over $300 to get started as a deposit (which no one mentioned to me was non refundable) Now I would like to point some things wrong with this already, but I did not see when I initially told them to start my recovery, but my tech friend did after he saw that I was upset with this case. Since I deleted my data, no clean room was needed for my case (unless of course these idiots like to make so called "data recovery" programs in a clean room, which would make it harder to type and see) Also I very much doubt that these data recovery scamsters even have a clean room because I saw the layout of their building and WOW could they not fit a true clean room in there. I work in the medical industry and know what a clean room is, and it would cost them atleast $800 per filter, which goes like 2-3 times a month, plus a clean room costs like half a mill to actually create, and they did not have a clean room. I digress.. I paid them their $300, and told them to start the work. They said that the original $300 that I paid would make the work go faster (about 2-3 days) but i recieved no phone calls or status updates from these data recovery frauds for well over a week, and everytime I called them they told me they needed more time. Anyways to cut through all the data recovery terms that they tried to confuse me with, something about how the profile was erased was making it harder for them? I mean I guess I did something unique? (sarcasm) After half a month of demanding to get my hard drive back, these guys told me that I would need to sign a form for them to give me my own property back? That is like stealing! I paid them to perform data recovery on my hard drive and got nothing in return, and now want to try a reputable company to see if they can actually do data recovery on my hard drive and these guys wont give it back! I have alot of friends in the greater Chicago area, and have already told them to spread word of this data recovery scheme that ChicagoDataRecoveryCorp runs and to stay far away from it. I have also alerted the proper authorities like the US Attorney General and the BBB and my credit card company. I am disputing the charges. I think we should all get together and teach these data recovery frauds a lesson. We should all complain to our legislators and the BBB and the attorney general and the local media. I have tried to get my story out everywhere, so that no one gets jaded like I did because I was desperate to get my data back. Also I have found these guys operate under Data Recovery Corp, with a website www.datarecoverycorp.com in Cleveland and Florida Data Corp under website www.floridadatacorp.com and in New York under www.datarecoverynewyork.com and in Los Angeles as California Data Corp with a website www.californiadatacorp.com. I have also sent an email to this website to lump all the complaints together. Please stay away if you need data recovery because these guys are pure scam artists!
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Name: pteargryfin
Date: 2/20/2009
Comments:
This company uses tactics straight from the textbook for used-car salesmen. They didn't stop trying to scam me from the moment I called them to the moment I picked up my (thankfully unmolested) hard drive. I dealt almost entirely with "Tony" who tried to rob me in the following ways: - he tried to get me to pay for expedited problem analysis when they had already analyzed the problem - he made up some phony story about how the logical damage to the drive would require hours of "custom programming" that would bring the total bill to $1,485 (I was able to eventually solve the problem with non-custom recovery software) - I balked at the $1,485, so Tony asked what my "target price" was (this is when I really knew I was being scammed). By "some miracle" he was able to meet my suggestion of $500 as long as I signed up for 3 months of their online data backup service. - When I showed up to pick up my hard drive the next day (Tony said it would be ready for me), the receptionist claimed I needed to give them 24 hours notice so they could ship it back from their "clean room" in Chicago (I was at the Schaumburg, IL location). THEY DON'T HAVE A CLEAN ROOM IN CHICAGO! - I demanded that she produce my hard drive or I wouldn't leave. I demanded to speak to Tony. He put me on hold while he was apparently communicating with the receptionist through IM. They got their stories straight and told me a courier would get it there in an hour and a half. I knew it was in the back room at that location, but I decided to let them save face from their lies. I came back in an hour and the receptionist handed the drive to me (mind you, this was during rush hour; there is no way anyone could get from Chicago to Schaumburg in one hour during that time of night in light snow). Bottom line: This company will rip you off. They will lie to you. You cannot trust a word they say. Do you want to trust them with your precious data or give them any money? I don't either.
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