I hope you get enough money to try data recovery. Good data
recovery places are marvellous - they have many many tricks to
abstract data. Probability is on their side, too. A hardware
problem generally only damages a small part of the recorded area,
while the rest of the data is preserved in aspic. In many ways,
data recovery is a job that attracts the very best in geekery. It
requires attention to detail, a forensic spirit, and (because the
best stay in contact with the frantic owner every minute of the
process) a keen understanding and sympathy for human nature at its
most vulnerable. Also, the rewards mental and monetary are
fantastic. I bet a lot of people fall in love with their data
recoverer. I bet data recoverers have groupies.
So my advice is to keep heart, keep your drive safe until you can
afford to fix it, reassure yourself that you ahve probably not lost
anything, but merely gained a little early personal archaeology.
And do try not to run off with the tall dark handsome stranger with
the neat set of CD-Rs I see in your future.
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