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August 9th, 2006, 11:49 AM
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OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
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August 9th, 2006, 12:35 PM
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Re: OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
Ouch!
There are places that specialize in data recovery. Of course, they want money. No idea how much, though.
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August 9th, 2006, 01:11 PM
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Re: OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
I had to learn this lesson the hard way as well. Now I routinely backup my data from time to time, and carry a mirror image of my most important files on a USB key.
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August 9th, 2006, 03:09 PM
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Re: OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
There are also some cheaper shareware-type programs that might work.
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August 9th, 2006, 03:11 PM
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Re: OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
Aack! This reminds me that I need to make a few CDs.
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August 9th, 2006, 03:42 PM
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Re: OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
The HD failure strikes again.  Most likely a heat issue took it out. Thats what killed mine a while back. I feel for you man, I wish there was something I could do.
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August 9th, 2006, 04:11 PM
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Re: OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
Can't vouch for them, but you could give these folks a call
http://www.vantagetech.com/
or
http://www.harddriverecovery.org/
and get a quote.
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August 9th, 2006, 04:51 PM
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Re: OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
It looks like the Canadian Hard Drive Curse™ has turned its attention south of the border.
I feel your pain BlackKnyght. I too lost all the data on my hard drive just a few months ago (though due equally to my stupidity as computer error). It hurts.
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August 12th, 2006, 04:42 PM
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Re: OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
As I used to ask users, who I had to support on a backup program, who hadnt used it, or used it regularly...
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When did you data become important to you? About 5 secs after you lost it...
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August 12th, 2006, 04:57 PM
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Re: OT: Aaaaaarrrrrggghh.......
Yep. Of course there's also the inverse law of data failure: the more backups you have the less you end up needing them! 
I have..mm..25 backups. Never needed to use any of them. (they aren't all CURRENT, of course- I just keep the old ones for a while).
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