(Yet another reason) Why I Hate Windows

[Tony Alfrey]

Rick Bowers wrote:
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> I left that company (not by choice) and stored the drive. Two years 
> later, the assets of that company were acquired and I went to work for 
> the new company.  None of the old stuff had been transferred over (or, 
> apparently, preserved) so I took out my backup. It won't spin up. 
> Period. So all that data is sitting on a dead drive. Now I need to 
> recreate everything from scratch, where possible. I won't be buying any 
> more Western Digital drives...
> 
> ~Rick
> 

Is it not true that there are these disk drive recovery places that can 
literally remove the disk and place it into their lab drives and recover 
files?  I understand that they are not cheap but your data may be very 
valuable.



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Tony Alfrey
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