At the same time, the hard drive recovery specialists are not really for the circumstances you describe. Their market is for large companies and organizations, whose data has to be recovered for legal and other reasons.
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > My in-laws hard drive died. After framming around with it for a couple of > hours, I told them there was nothing I could do. They searched the internet > for a "data retrieval" specialist. The place they found said that it would > cost around 500 bucks to get data off the drive. That was a definitely not > in the picture. As a last resort, the took the machine to a local Mom and > Pop shop. The proprietor popped the hard drive out, put a new power source > in the hard drive, retrieved all the data, burned it to dvd and charged 40 > bucks. > > The moral: check with someone who specializes in hardware after exhausting > your other options. > > > J > > - > > When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any > of the growing evils, but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost > principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil - > Montesquieu > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331619 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
