If you still need advice I can help you. I've dealt with every major data recovery company and I am partners with all of them.
Ontrack vs Segate which is better?
Seagate has lower prices but are they as good?
I have 3 drives
1. Dead, the HD attempts to power up but just dies, I replaced the board with same results
2. Drive appears but crashes when it hits some bad sectors, tried spinrite but still crashes. I did get some files from that drive but I need them all.
3. Cannot retrieve data - drive powers up and I see the drive in drive management but it cannot open.
These are all 3tb external segate drives and all crashed about same time, they were used heavily.