[nylug-talk] Dead hard drive

[Lawrence Timmins]

It's not great news, but I have a tool that I purchased and have used it on USB external drives (250GB, 300GB), USB thumbnail drives and 

The 'not great' part is the price.  I believe I paid $495 for Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional.   

They offer technical support if you need it, but the pricing was too high for the 70GB of multimedia project files that I needed to get off.   Just to send it there, and get it checked out, it appears it would be take weeks and I didn't have that time (and the money - I estimated I could be in the hole for $5,000).

So I went with the software, and am very glad I did.  

I've used it to help myself on several forensic projects and was very pleased with the program's ability to give me different options to choose from (sometimes, I just wanted my 50,000 jpegs, sometimes,  I needed to recover the disk files so I could restore the computer).

 		
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