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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Tim: At the end of last year I had what looked for all the world like a memory problem in my main desktop. Although I know better, it was not backed up and the problem turned out to be a bad hard drive. This stranded ~1-2 Gb of data, and I was close to panic! I tried using my copy of SpinRite, but the drive was too far gone for that. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Eventually I wound up sending the drive to $300 Data Recovery in Los Angeles. A couple of weeks later I paid them around $300 and got back a new SSD with 99% of the data on it, along with the old drive – which it turns out had a bad head… <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You might give them a call and see if they can help. See: <a href="https://www.300dollardatarecovery.com/our-abilities/">https://www.300dollardatarecovery.com/our-abilities/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All the best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Al Fuller<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Sending this inquiry to you all since I know there are more than a few IT guys in this group.....<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I bought three 512GB flash drives for archiving here at work. One locked up in each of our offices and one for me to add to files as necessary as files are amended. They have approximately 450GB on them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>One of the three failed as soon as I finished filling it. I bought a different brand and made a replacement copy for the safe in our Madison office. A second, the same brand as the first one that failed is locked up in our MKE office and will also be replaced now because the third one (the one that has amended archived files) is also failing. I am having a hard time retrieving the amended files before this drive takes a final crap on me. It took over 15 hours to pull one 87MB file from the dying drive. I can't even attempt to pull more than one file at a time. Not that this should matter, but the files are mixed word, pdf, saved outlook emails and miscellaneous audio or video files and possibly other items. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>What I am wondering/hoping is that someone might know of a solution to this nearly impossible retrieval process. Or am I just screwed here? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Next year we will be storing everything in the cloud so I won't have to deal with this PITA process. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>tim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>