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Holy shit - soooo, remember that hard drive that I asked about where I lost all my shit. So, I sent it off to a data recovery place...

Posted by Alex Wilder (aka Jim) Nov 13 '19, 11:53

Minimum - $1500 to get my stuff back.

I feel sick.

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I’d try here. They’re out in st Charles off 70. -- (link) - spamlet Nov 13, 12:05 6
- Rock on - I definitely will. You da man, spammy! nm - Alex Wilder Nov 13, 12:07 5
  - If they give you issues, let me know. - spamlet Nov 13, 12:07 3
    - $1600 -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Nov 13, 12:30
    - Ooooh...even better. Will do. Now - to get my drive back. nm -- nm - Alex Wilder Nov 13, 12:09
    - $1395 -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 12:09
  - $1495 -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 12:07
That's horrible. I'd be sick too. -- nm - zunkskunk Nov 13, 12:05
is there another place you can try? Does your work have some IT guys who might be of help? -- nm* - Beaker Nov 13, 12:01 3
- I don't have a guy...but I'll be finding out about other places. Although - the dude is playing the "let me talk to my manager" - Alex Wilder Nov 13, 12:04 2
  - Reply with $400--since he tried to fleece you, you deduct $100 off the original quote as an a-hole tax on them. -- nm - Flavorize--strolling through Disney+ Nov 13, 12:13 1
    - lol - I should do that. Actually though - with spammy's info above, I just want my drive back now. -- nm - Alex Wilder Nov 13, 12:17
damn, I was hoping this would be an "only $100 and I got everything back!" IM. -- nm - Max Nov 13, 11:56 1
- The bummer is - when I first talked to him, he gave me an estimate in the $500 range. nm - Alex Wilder Nov 13, 11:57
Yeah, many data recovery places will gouge you. -- nm - David Nov 13, 11:55 2
- Well - they knows it's like 19 years worth of irreplaceable pictures and stuff. nm - Alex Wilder Nov 13, 11:56 1
  - You may have better luck with local places. -- nm - David Nov 13, 12:01
I am sorry that it's so pricey :( My second suggestion was going to be disassembling it and putting the drive in a different enclosure ... - Beryllium Nov 13, 11:55 1
- I actually opened the drive up, just to see if I could see something physically wrong with it. Looked good to me. But what do I know? -- nm - Alex Wilder Nov 13, 12:00
Sounds more like a ransom than a recovery cost. -- nm - Qale Nov 13, 11:54 1
- Just a bit, yeah -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 11:55
I have an external drive and use Cloud Storage for that reason. -- nm - budice Nov 13, 11:54 5
- I've learned a hard lesson twice. - Reagen Nov 13, 12:29
- This is an external drive...but yeah. The timing of this was just so fucking horrible. -- nm - Alex Wilder Nov 13, 11:55 3
  - Backup of a Backup in my case. Actually have 3 key repositories for my stuff -- nm - budice Nov 13, 11:57 2
    - For my pictures, external drive with pics and vids, separate external backup for that, and it's also all on the cloud. -- nm - zunkskunk Nov 13, 12:04 1
      - I don't know if you saw my original story - we were consolidating all of our pictures onto one drive. nm - Alex Wilder Nov 13, 12:06

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