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Anybody have experience with computer drive recovery services? My parents lost theirs and Microcenter is quoting $2000

Posted by Max Oct 15 '24, 11:12

I would have expected in the low-mid $$$ range. I haven't seen the issue first hand though, and they describe it as the C drive is completely nuked so they can't even get into it to transfer anything.

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Speaking of Microcenter - Max Oct 15, 11:44
we've used a couple over the years - not cheap, but I don't remember them being that expensive. Read the fine print of the contract before agreeing - decline Oct 15, 11:31
We have a place down the street from us we've used once for a recovery operation. Was $1600 -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 11:15 14
- holy shit -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:16 13
  - It's time intensive and requires special tools and skills. - JD Oct 15, 11:20
  - A good reminder that cloud backup stuff is easy and generally inexpensive if not free for most day to day usage -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 11:17 11
    - My dad, a former career IBM exec, thinks he's smarter than MS and is convinced cloud is just a way for people to do bad things with your data - Max Oct 15, 11:30 6
      - 🤔 Isn't IBM like all services these days? Including some cloud based ones? -- nm - JD Oct 15, 11:36 2
        
        He retired in the 90s. -- nm - Max Oct 15, 11:39 1
        
        and doesn't trust the current direction of the company ;-) -- nm - JD Oct 15, 11:40
      - sounds like my FIL. He was still backing up his financial data on floppy disks last I knew -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 11:35 2
        
        If it's good enough for the nuclear codes, it's good enough for me -- nm - decline Oct 15, 11:35 1
        
        Well, yeah. And in an obsolete kind of way, on a day to day, practical basis, hack proof -- nm - JD Oct 15, 11:37
    - 3/2/1 has saved my ass numerous times -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 11:27
    - I back up all the music and porn on an external. -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:20 2
      - You save porn? I kind of always considered it throwaway. - Qale Oct 15, 11:26 1
        
        I was mostly being silly. - mud Oct 15, 11:34

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