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Well since we're all techy nerdy types I thought I'd try here...

I have 2 dead hard drives.. mac formated 500 gig western digital drives. One has all the source files of my company's most recent indie film (most of which was backed up thankfully, but still).. the other was my main drive that died last night.. mac crashed, I restarted and the drive was dead. I couldn't even boot to another drive or CD to copy files, and it shows up as a broken drive i the Mac's disk utility.

So, I doubt any kind of general recovery programs will work. I tried some demos and they couldn't recognize the old drive. I'm sure this will be the same. Both are making a funky clicking noise.

I know there's hardcore data recovery services out there, where you send them the drive and they restore the contents by taking it apart and doing funky stuff to it. I emailed one and they told me it would be about $2000 per drive. Screw that. Anyone happen to know of any other companies out there that don't cater to big businesses that might be able to do the same thing, but more affordable?

Or am I screwed and I should just turn these into terrain for 40k?