I am heartsick. I have been digitizing a line of designs for cancer awareness project. I was on my last design when I dropped my external HD (gentle fall, soft landing, but it is ruined. I lost my 9 cancer designs for the set, another design for a class I'm teaching on Tuesday, and all of the designs I've DL or bought since July. I know, I know I should of had them in another place, but my lap top is on its last leg, so I have stopped saving anything on it. They tell me to retrieve the HD would be $1200. It is a terabyte. The HD survived a year in China. I am backing up everything fast and furious, now.

So sorry you had such a bad experience, how terrible for you. I have an external hard drive,so I save my designs on that.

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I'm so sorry you lost all that hard work. Bless you!

That is terrible twee, however I am very sure that you could have your hard drive recovered for much less than that. I would be doing some googling to see if any of the tech heads out there can help. Actually if it were mine I would have it opened up to try and fix it myself, but that doesn't help you much. I do think you have been quoted by con man though. Good luck I hope you can get it sorted out.
Alice.

my friend fixs them hes slow but good and never charges us .Wish u lived next door!!hugs

So sorry. I will recommend you to use carbonite or a company like them to back up everything in your computer. That way if something happen you can upload all of them in your new computer. They just charge around $59,00 a year. I'm really happy with the service be with them for 3 years already and I have a terabyte of info.

I have an external hardrive, but also back up most of my designs on dvd's

oh, so sorry. I speak no geek ,so I can not help. I spend almost two years recovering designs when I had a major loss in 2009. Good luck!!! Kay

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OH Twee,
I am so sorry that happened it is one of the worst things that happens to people who use computers for lots of things. My worst accident is when I SAVE over something I am doing. grrrrrrrrrr.
sympathies

You can go online and buy the software and equipment and do it yourself. Today while packing, I dropped my computer bag with two laptops. My new computer is broke, hard drive appears to be okay. The other laptop was old and unreliable, now just more unreliable then before--won't connect to the internet. Oh, forgot to mention that since I was packing for a trip, I backed up my computers to two external hard drives last night. One was in another bag, the other stays at the house. :)

What a terrible thing to happen. I am going to back up now.

I am so sorry to hear this. I sure hope you are able to find someone who can recover your info for a lot less. I am crying with you. I am trying to have 2 back-ups and I still worry about a crash.

If the platters have not crashed, then you should be able to recover cheaper than that. If you are only going to toss it, bring it to me and I will see if I can do it MUCH cheaper. If the platters (the things inside that data is saved to) have crashed or if it is a "solid state drive" then the price is average for recovery.

Oh I'm feeling with you. My mac crashed in April and the last backup was 10month ago. Still find empty folders where all the information is gone.
It's sound much too high for me too that you should pay 1200,-$ for the data-saving. Think this could be if you had a virus or something and they have to puzzle everything out.
Hope you find a cheaper way (and I have a permanent back-up now :o).
Greetings, Bettina

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When my computer died my local repair place copied every thing from it to my new lap top for around $80.00. I didn't lose a thing not even my saved favorites...e-mail, etc.
Muffy :)

Call around to see if you can find someone who will do it for less than that. That is an incredible amount of money!! Maybe even a college student who is majoring in computer sciences, or just one of your geek/nerd types. I hope that you can recover your work. And I agree; back up everything!! I have 3TB of data, and would cry a river if I lost it. Good luck!!

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by justonlyme 04 Oct 2013

BTW, I say nerd/geek like it is a positive thing. No insults meant there.

by twee 04 Oct 2013

Good idea.

by mops 04 Oct 2013

My son saved all my design from a hard drive when the motherboard blew up. Just placed it in an external he had taken the disk out and went from there. I watched but would not dare try it or give instruction, but any computer geek with a srewdriver should be able to do it. The transfering of data took a long time, but $1200 is extortion!

by mops 04 Oct 2013

Sorry for the spelling mistakes, me and my iPad make strange pair.

by rescuer 04 Oct 2013

Some geeks -- like me -- take the name as a compliment.
$1200 is average for recovery if the platters have crashed and no longer spin. Then each platter must be examined separately and in special pricey equipment. Then they have to recompile all the data in the order that it belongs. It is a very tedious task -- much like reassembling a document after it has been shredded.

by mops 04 Oct 2013

Wow, I think I was very lucky data could be retrieved so easily. Thanks for explaining!