I received my package from ACS Data Recovery Service yesterday afternoon. All my academic powerpoint lectures were intact! Hurray - I have 10 weeks of work back again, and won't have to recreate all those lectures. It looks like just about everything came back intact, including my website files, except for a lecture I'm working on for next week: "All About Wood: Aesthetics to Zen." I wasn't as worried about this one because I can easily recreate what I had in it already - only 6 hours effort lost instead of 10 weeks time. I can live with that.
The price wasn't cheap, but it wasn't at the high end of all the estimates I received, either. It cost $700 to get my data back - cloning the images of the original hardrive and reconstructing the file directories. It took a few efforts to get a good clone, but I was pretty impressed with the information flow coming from the company. They were pretty straightforward about what was going on, what my options were, etc.
If you weren't following my blog a few weeks ago, here are the relevant links to my saga on my hard drive crash: A very frustrating weekend
, and More woes about my hard drive.
The company I used has a website: ACS Data Recovery.
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Great News!!!
You must feel such relief! Bet all the flowers are singing for you this morning.
This is why, in the past, i kept my old computers as backup boxes ... even though they were energy-hogs and noisy.
Last month i bought a 250g backup unit for $79 (promo sale) ... so now i can retire the last of the noise-makers.
Have a good, dancing day.
Thanks - I'm now doing regular backups. I learned my lesson, really, I did . . .
bet you did ... but then, we all have been there ...
for example, by the time Charlie (the mischievous cat) dumped the SECOND glass of some liquid into the laptop, I finally got trained and don't put liquids next to the laptop anymore! Moreover, Charlie trained me to 'alt-s' (save) often and to keep incremental backups...however, it kinda hard on the ego having to be trained by a CAT!
glad all is well ...
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Ouch - that would be pretty frustrating. I've done that with coffee at work - just not paying attention. Emma tries to get up on my lap while I'm working, and she would spill something in nothing flat.
Andi, great to see you got most of your data back. The relief is palpable, even from this distance!
Dennis, the only file that was still corrupted was my powerpoint presentation, "All about wood: aesthetics to zen," which I'm presenting tomorrow night at our museum of biological diversity. That's ok - it's not too much of a hassle to redo what I lost. I'm nearly there now, and should finish the talk with at least half an hour to spare ;-)
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