We'll rebuild it faster, stronger, ... wait how much?

[tuftears]

Okay, with quotes ranging from $500 to $3.9K, I think I'm going to punt on hard drive recovery and just reconstruct what I need to. Fortunately my e-mail and files are all kept on a server host, and I just checked and fixed the FTP backup mechanism there. (good thing I did check)

My 2009 tax return was on the drive, but it looks like there's a form for requesting copies of tax returns from the IRS, so that's what I'll do. Other than that, eh, nothing on there that's worth a likely price of $2K.

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[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

unless it won't spin up anymore, try building a new system and put the old drive in on it's own IDE chain (or as a slave). Then throw Norton Utilities at it and see if it can rescue any data for you, which you then pull off the bad drive and onto the good.

This is why I use a RAID1 system. Lose a drive, not a critical problem.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

The PCB on it is fried. We've already tried it in several other computers and it wouldn't spin up.