The harddrive fell...

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URGENT HELP PLEASE.

My sister's external harddrive has just made friends with the floor. Now the computer wouldn't read it at all.

I *know* dropping it more or less = death, but anyway, has anyone had similar experience and had been able to rescue any data at all? There are things in the drive that she'd be willing to pay for data recovery, but is it even worth trying?

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[eolo.livejournal.com]

My friend's hard-drive also died this past Saturday here in Uncle Sam's land.

If the hard drive is dead and there is no way you can get it to work even by putting it in as in internal disk, then your sister is in a tough spot.

Data recovery prices here go almost to 5000 dolars, so it's a bit OUCH

I hope everything turns out for the best.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Ouch... I was going to say "nevermind, it was her boyfriend who dropped it so he's the one paying" but that isn't the sort of money either of them should pay when they're planning a wedding. =_=

[factorielle.livejournal.com]

It goes up to that, yes, but I seem to remember some recovery services as 'low' as 500€...