This is a true story that happened recently to me. I was taking my daily evening walk around our neighborhood a few days ago, and a man working in his yard stopped me and said, “you’re Kevin, the computer guy. right?”
Long story short – he had a disk drive that had crashed, and wanted to know if there was anything I could do to recover some documents and pictures from it. He then tells me that he had two other computer people check out the drive, and they both said that the data was unrecoverable. One person, that he describes as a “computer expert”, told him that he has a lot of expensive tools and utilities at his disposal, and that the disk is trash.
I asked if I could give it a try. I took the disk back home, hooked it up to my computer, and ran GetDataBack (from Runtime Software). It took several hours for it to complete, but once it was done, I was able to locate and retrieve over 400 documents, 343 pictures, and 62 music files.
Then I suggested that he get a backup drive or back it up to the cloud!