I just LOST my D: Drive off my XP machine's HD!
On 3/16/2021 3:04 PM, Mike Duffy wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:11:14 -0700, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>
>> usually when you take it to the shop they solution is to format the hard
>> drive. Data? Not our problem.
>
> C'mon. You tell them you want the data. It's not a problem; it's an
> opportunity. Then they can (for a fee) try changing the on-board
> controller, if they can find an identical model where the medium has
> failed. Then they can at least tell you definitively that *your* medium
> has failed. You still don't have your data, but now at least you know it
> is truly gone.
>
uh huh.
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