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Originally Posted by RyanC
I have to have my comp sent to the manufacturer so they can determine if I'm still eligible to be covered under the warrenty, so it'll be about 3 weeks until I can get my harddrive back to fiddle with.. staples says there is physical damage and it'll cost ~500$ to recover the files if they send it to a company in Toronto (clean room, professional business computer file recovery service)... :/
I'm not sure how qualified Staples' computer technicians are to diagnose this problem as it is... compared to somebody working for Best Buy or Futureshop.
Thanks for the offered help though!
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they all probably send it to some other company for recovery.
If the head of the hard drive is damaged, your data is as good as gone. Try downloading a Linux Live CD (like Ubuntu's) and mounting the drive to see if your data is still there.
One of my hard drives failed some months ago, almost the same thing happened (except that I actually banged my fist on the laptop) now I can't even access it without waiting for an eternity.
I'll advise to not access it until you're ready to transfer data immediately, if the head is damaged further, eventually you won't be able to access the data.
Good Luck!
