Computer wouldn't boot today. Long story short: 1TB Seagate SATA drive died, and stopped the remaining disks from being recognized. Fortunately, removing the disk drive let me resume using my computer.
This is the first TOTAL disk failure I've had in twenty years. I've had two or three partial failures, but never total failure that is so bad it stops the computer from booting. I've tried the usual freezer trick, but Windows won't even recognize the drive at the BIOS level. And, if I leave it in the computer for a few minutes (it's in a removable caddy), it gets HOT.
So, it is broken at a pretty fundamental level.
This was more than a scratch drive, but less than a mission critical item. I'm going to lose a chunk of my old music performance video collection that hadn't yet been transferred to DVD. Probably a few other things that I haven't yet realized. However, nothing precious enough to warrant spending $1,200 (the first recovery quote I got).
So, for a drive that is dead and will probably have to be opened to do a recovery, is anyone aware of any service under $1,000, or am I just smoking the bad stuff to think such a thing would exist?
This is the first TOTAL disk failure I've had in twenty years. I've had two or three partial failures, but never total failure that is so bad it stops the computer from booting. I've tried the usual freezer trick, but Windows won't even recognize the drive at the BIOS level. And, if I leave it in the computer for a few minutes (it's in a removable caddy), it gets HOT.
So, it is broken at a pretty fundamental level.
This was more than a scratch drive, but less than a mission critical item. I'm going to lose a chunk of my old music performance video collection that hadn't yet been transferred to DVD. Probably a few other things that I haven't yet realized. However, nothing precious enough to warrant spending $1,200 (the first recovery quote I got).
So, for a drive that is dead and will probably have to be opened to do a recovery, is anyone aware of any service under $1,000, or am I just smoking the bad stuff to think such a thing would exist?