Originally Posted by
bandrew
Guys
A brief word of warning. Yesterday I got a call from a mate that his PC had started smoking and no longer worked.
I went to have a look at the pc and as I suspected the PSU had failed, the problem is that as it failed it appears to have surged taking out all the major parts, including the 2xcdrom drives and his Hard Drive.
Now, I know most people do not back up including my mate, he had all the photos of his kids on the pc since they were born. What a hard lesson to learn, as the companies that make disks say, 100% of Hard Drives WILL fail, it's only a matter of time due to the moving parts inside the disk enlosure.
Anyway I spoke to my mate today who works for a data recovery company and to have the disk spindles removed from the disk enclosure and remounted in another box and then the data copied onto a brand new disk would cost..........are you sitting down.......
£800 + VAT
So the moral of this story is back up guys, a 500Gb external Hard Disk only costs about £100 and if you backup once a month at least the worse case is you lose a months worth of photos etc.
Andy
p.s. Anyone know of any cheaper data recovery places?
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