(Yet another reason) Why I Hate Windows

[David A. Bandel]

On 9/21/07, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Rick Bowers wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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.
>

Yep.  I've used Kepler labs.  Can't say I'd necessarily recommend
them, but they can do the job.  Depending on the size of the drive,
you are likely looking at $1,000.00 plus.



David A. Bandel
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