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Old April 30th 18, 12:33 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default Recommend data recovery company?

In message , B00ze
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On 2018-04-28 05:40, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

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I'd say it's probably worth - if you're considering this route - getting
the hot-air gun. My last 6 months' employment (with a company which

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Yeah, Vanguard says the same thing lol. Guess I'll go get one if I

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Well, I won't get nowhere if the problem is a failed head; then I'd


I wonder if a failed head could fail in such a way that it damages the
electronics to which it connects. I suspect open-circuit is more likely
than a short, but I don't actually know what the head technology _is_
these days (my mind still visualises some sort of coil - while the
technology still involves magnetism, it can't be _too_ far from that).


Yeah, well, if the failed head has started magnetizing everywhere it
goes, then it's too late now ;-) If it's burnt something on the PCB,
then it will burn it right away again on the replacement PCB. I should
really replace both the head stack and the PCB (then I would not need
to mock around with the calibration chip.) But I've never done that
before; chances are high I can screw something up...


Well, not calibration, but you'd still need whichever chip holds the
list of bad sectors and which ones have been swapped in their place.
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for a cheap recovery place. But there's no way I'm paying $2000 just
to get old game ISOs and old documents - that drive has been in my old


Is that what's there? For game ISOs, presumably you could find copies of
the game CDs on ebay? The documents obviously not.
If you hadn't accessed it for 5 years, do you actually need it anyway? I
can see myself still wanting to access it for completeness (and
crossness with myself for not having backed it up), but ...


Yup, haven't touched the stuff in years. I can live without it, but it
has all my saved games (from games I'll never play again lol) and I
don't know what documents (coz I haven't used it in so long.) It's
mostly for completeness that I want it back.


We are alike. I paid 60 pounds for another netbook of the same model as
my XP one that died (it overheats within a few seconds of power on, and
shuts itself off), just so I can put the HD in and "see what's there"
(OS and software wise, and settings; the _data_ I read off it no
problem); it (the replacement netbook) is still sitting here as
delivered, I haven't opened the package!

Best Regards,

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