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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[revar.livejournal.com]

I have previously gotten a board-fried hard drive to work by taking another drive of the same model, and putting it's board on the fried drive's disk pack. If you can find that model drive still in the stores or online, you might still be able to recover your data.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I did a little reading, it sounds like part of the firmware is stored on the boot sectors so it would still take getting recovery software and stuff even if I could get it to spin up. Also, I'm not technically ept enough to do that! After thinking about it, I figure it's less expensive to just do without.