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Does anybody have any suggestions where to send a hard drive to get recovered. Has anybody had experience with myharddrivedied.com?

You sure Windows didn't just die? If so you should be able to get hold of your data from a Linux Live CD.

Ontrack will do it for a hefty ($1,000+) fee. Aside from that, you might want to find a bootable drive, and use that to explore your old drive to see what you might get off first.

Back up early and often. I learned it the hard way...years ago.

How do you know for sure that the hard drive is "dead"?

If the hard drive is in fact now dead and can't be accessed and doesn't even spin up then it will be more expensive to recover data from it than if the filing system got screwed up, deleted, or partly overwritten and then you decided you wanted your data back.

It may not be worth the trouble and potentially very high expense to get your data back depending on what it is and how valuable that data actually is. IF you are storing important data then you NEED to keep BACKUPS of it on a regular basis. If you are very concerned about it and don't want a hard drive failure to get in your way at all then you can get two of the same hard drive and a motherboard that supports RAID and mirror them and then if one fails it will tell you and you are to replace it and it will duplicate the other ones contents to that on the next boot. If it fails long after you got it and you would rather buy two newer and larger drives then you can do that too and mirror them and copy the data from your old now single drive to that new mirror. Basically that means if you have two 1TB drives then you actually have 1TB of storage instead of 2TB because everything is duplicated on each of them.

The hard drive's heads are bad according to were a local computer store sent it. They wanted $2,300 to recover it and I am looking for some place cheaper with a clean room. I rebuilt my computer and have a external hard drive for back ups.