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vroom_skies

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Hey there everyone,

Long story short I was going to fix up this friends computer that I know.
Well it turns out her HDD is dead, as in mechanically dead, so there is nothing that I can do, or at least nothing I know about/ am capable of.
I told her that there is always the option of having the data recovered professionally, since she said it's really important. However she can't afford it.

What really stinks is that she was recently diagnosed with cancer and it isn't looking to good.

I'm just curious if any of you know of any cheap recovery solutions?

Thanks
Bob
 
Unfortunately, there really aren't any cheap options out there. If the drive spins up still and the motors work fine, then swapping PCBs might work. If it doesn't spin up, then there isn't much that you can do about it (though it could still be the PCB) and you'll pretty much have to take it to a company that specializes in data recovery (which as you know, isn't cheap).
 
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