Need your help!

[memorylane]

Hi everyone, could anyone who was on my website email list, please re-send me your info. I lost everything, all info, pictures, names, etc. Hard drive went, along with my backup. Thanks, Curtis

curtis@retrovending.com

[Creighton]

Sorry about the loss. That sucks backup went down as well.
There are hard drive recovery services in most large cities.
Spendy but might be worth it.
Creighton
 

[Slider-Bob]

At work, we use a service that is called Ontrack.  It's $65 for a diagnostic fee.  If data is recoverable, they provide you the file names, and offer you a price to recover it (you make the call).  Recovery price ranges between $600 (low) and $1500 (max).  It is expensive, but sometimes you need what you've lost.

PM me if you want contact name and info for them.

[Pat Pixley]

Curtis just sent my info to you.

[sodaman]

Just sent you mine.

[Kilroy]

If the drive still spins, you should be able to  slave it, put it in an external case and pull your data off. The computer will see it as  another drive.

[Slapshot42]

I have done that as well worked. 

Looked like a system 32 file. Mine was the boot.ini file was damaged so the hard drive couldnt boot.

When that happened I re insalled Windows on the C: Drive.  I bought  a seperate drive for everything else.  So, in the future if my computer crashes I just loose the operating system and program files.  The important stuff is effected because its stored on a different hard drive.

[rayg]

I run a RAID 5 (Redundant Array of Independent Disks),  the data is distributes across multiple disks (3), so if one disk fails the data from the others can rebuilt the failed drive... No data is lost. Hard drives are still pretty cheap and most new motherboards will support a  RAID without a separate controller card. well worth it especially for a business. 

[johnieG]

Online cloud services like Carbonite work well also if you have a high speed internet connection to the web.