Christine Dabney > wrote in
:

> Heya folks,
>
> I took my laptop into the shop yesterday, to see if it could be fixed
> and anything salvaged. They just called me, and told me they were
> able to recover my data.
>
> So it looks like I will get all my recipes back!!
>
> By the way, the hard drive died..that was the problem. They put in a
> new hard drive, so that should be fixed....
>
> I do have a backup now, and I will definitely be backing everything
> up.
>
> Price for all of this? $215, which I am thinking is totally
> reasonable for a new hard drive and recovery of all the data....
>
> Now, to celebrate (tonight or tomorrow) I will fix one of those saved
> recipes ..... I will have to look to see what I have.....
>
> Christine, who is so very, very relieved!!!
>

Not a bad price at all. "Simple" data recovery using a program like
SpinRite is not so bad and that price seems great when you look at the
costs associated with a full "forensic" type recovery case. Those can
quickly reach $1000 and more depending on the size of the drive.