Of course she didn’t have any backup solutions, so it was looking like her data was gone forever.

She cries, “Unacceptable!”

I retort, “But its expensive!”.  I cry.

So I do some googling for hard drive recovery reviews and companies.  I call a few and they all say it’ll be in the thousands of dollars.  So I turned to my trusty friend, ebay.  I found one company called Hard Drive Savers offering invasive recovery it for only $300.  (I had taken the top off my drive already and saw it was a hardware problem, so I knew I needed invasive).

I was skeptical, so I did some more googling to get some background on HDDSavers.  I found relatively few comments on them, but all were good.  So off went Meghan’s hard drive.

Lo and behold, a week later a dvd arrived with the contents of the folders she needed!  John over there at hddsavers came through!  I highly recommend them for anyone needing to recover data from a dead hard drive.

Disclaimer for all you doubters out there:
I am in no way affiliated or obligated to hddsavers.com.

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