I spent the morning searching the internet for hard drive recovery companies. None of these places has any online means of generating a price quote, but everything I'm seeing shows well over a thousand dollars to recover a drive.
My lack of backup has now officially begun to cost me. Real dollars.
I found a company in Madison, Wisconsin that wouldn't charge me for an attempt to recover, only if they recover data.
I called an talked to a tech... and found out that, because of the clicking noise, my 250Gb Maxtor MaxLine Plus II hard drive was 30%-40% likely to have had it's platters turned to dust and not have anything recoverable, based on the hundreds of that drive model that they have seen recently.
That left 60%-70% likely that SOMETHING could be recovered. It was worth a shot, so my hard drive is now on it's way to Madison Wisconsin, hoping beyond hope that SOMETHING can be pulled off...
... I feel like I lost part of my life when that drive went down... all of those photos, those memories...
2008
2005- Where did everybody go?
- Nope. It won't die.
2004- Amazing Race 6 starts!
- Cheaper
- You're EVIL, just EVIL
- *gack*
2003- It's too early
2002- Happy 15th Birthday, Sam
- Down the drain...