In my town there is a Micro Center store and they do recovery work. It might be worthwhile looking at other sources for your recovery.
Wayne -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Barnett Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] external hard drive is dead It is an external drive that spins up. From the thread It most likely has a corrupted partition table. They still charge the 600 even if all they do is run the data recovery software. This is what i am talking about But anyway sorry about you losing all your files. That sucks.... On 10/19/2017 2:05 PM, net bat66 wrote: > that is not all that is involved. > it depends on what failed. if its a failed interface card in the > external case they would just put the drive in another case and send > it back. > or use software to try to copy the data to another drive. > anything else requires the use of a clean room environment they would > have to take the drive appart. > if its the drive interface they would try to use another interface > card on the old drive to see if they could retrieve the data and copy > it to a new drive. > if the drive motor is bad they would have to remove the drive > platters, install them into another drive of the same model and try to > retrieve the data this way with software. > thats why they charge so much. and if they were to have to install a > new drive for you in your computer it would cost even more. > even then you may not get all of your files back. chances are you > would still have to re install jaws and all your other programs to get > everything back the way it was. > > -----Original Message----- From: Randy Barnett > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 12:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] external hard drive is dead > > what a scam! 600 dollars to run a software prggram to get the data > lost because their drive failed? > On 10/19/2017 12:43 PM, Lenny McHugh wrote: >> Thanks for all of the suggestions. It is not worth the $599 to have >> the data recovered. I tried a few programs and I do not have enough >> space on my computers to try and recover the data. I located a >> partition recovery program that can not locate any partition. I ran a >> few scan programs that ran for about 8 hours and did not detect >> anything. I gave up and decided just to reformat the drive and get >> errors. I called Seagate and the tech linked into my computer to do >> the reformat for me. He received the same errors so a new drive is on >> the way. I have a $11.95 charge. This covers shipping both ways. I >> have 25 days to return the dead drive. He explained how they make >> sure that any data on my drive is totally destroyed. I should have it >> in 3 to 5 days for a few dollars more I could have it in 2 days. >> >> >> --- >> >> Please visit my web page >> >> It s motivational, inspirational with a touch of humor >> >> There is also a very extensive resource list for the blind >> >> http://www.LennyMcHugh.com >> >> International Brotherhood of Magicians member #43990 For answers to >> frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
