hopeful, but not optimistic...

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Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:02 AM
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Subject: Your Daughter's Hard Drive

Lloyd,

I took the hard drive home on Saturday and on Sunday started to work on it.  The first challenge was getting the hard drive out of the external WD cover but a video on the Internet helped with that task.  I then attached to my home PC running Win 7 and found that I would see the drive but it was saying not readable – it wanted to reformat the drive but I didn’t let it.  So I decided to take it to the office on Monday as I had a different tool to connect it to a computer and also had an XP computer to use – Win 7 is a bit more difficult when you are trying to do this approach.

I worked with the drive at the office and unfortunately with using all the tricks I know I was not able to get inside the drive to pull out the data.  Either the directory and architecture of the data has been corrupted or the platters themselves are warped somewhat – I would guess the former.  You can take this to or ship it to a few different places that say then can recover data from such a hard drive but it will cost a lot of money – most likely not less than $1,000 – and they won’t guarantee they will succeed but you still pay the money.  If that is not a viable option I am prepared to try a couple more things but they come with a risk of losing it all.  Give this some thought and let me know how you would like to proceed.  I can get the hard drive back to you on Saturday morning if you want to give to a company or someone else.

Take care,

Tom D

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Tom,

Kate says that if you have a couple of other ideas to try go ahead and do it. The pictures on this drive are very important to her but she’s not prepared to spend that kind of money on recovering them, especially if there is no gaurantee that it will work. She understands that what you have in mind runs the risk of permanently losing everything and she has pretty much assumed that it’s lost already.

So, please give it your best shot & let us know how it turns out…and how much we owe you for your efforts.

Thanks,

Lloyd