My iq500's hard drive has fried and i need a good company to retrieve data

after 3 years my hard drive seagate barracuda has died and i may have lost all of the docs on it.  I need to find a company who may be able to retrieve the docs as my local technician has been unable to.  Seagate want thousands of pounds to do this!

skmac wrote:
after 3 years my hard drive seagate barracuda has died and i may have lost all of the docs on it.  I need to find a company who may be able to retrieve the docs as my local technician has been unable to.  Seagate want thousands of pounds to do this!
There are data recovery companies in most major cities, the rule is that if money is no object, they will be happy to talk to you.
A typical dead hard drive recovery in the US is about $1000.
This is why backups are so important, if you're not backing up your data in AT LEAST one additional location then paying for them to recover the data is what you will have to do, after all if the data is that important, then it's worth that kind of money.

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