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Old 07-11-2017, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by thmp View Post
I agree 100%. Moreover, unless your hard drive is physically broken (as if the mechanical parts have snapped, or it has been hit with a hammer), with a little bit of knowledge you can recover all sort of stuff yourself at home. You only need a second computer and (potentially) lot of time.
This is true. I had a hard drive arm mechanical motion sensor die on me once at work and the tech guy fixed it by buying an identical drive from ebay and swapping out the actual drives. Though he did work for 'a government' data mining organization before he came to us.
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