"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
...
> 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!!!

Good for you! Are you backing up your whole drive to an external drive with
imaging software, or just your data on a flash drive. I had a flash drive
with all of my backed up data fail.

Hugh