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Originally Posted by phenomshel

Don't we have a hug smiley somewhere?? Honey, I am so so so sorry for your loss. I've actually gone through this... when I moved from Texas to Illinois, my computer never showed up. I shipped it from Texas and it disappeared in transit. Lost all my photos, my music, emails, addresses....

Its only the photo's I can't retrieve. The rest I can get/do again if I can bothered. Lucky i put some pix of mr m on MR, now I have six of them back.

Originally Posted by recluse

The same thing happened to me.
Lost it in transit.
On one of those endless family car rides.
When we got home, I had lost my mind.

Good thing you don't need it!

Originally Posted by nomesque

Data recovery service?

Dunno if its worth it? Food for thought though.

Originally Posted by thinkpadx

You might want to try out spinrite: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/SpinRite

It takes forever to run (sometimes up to several weeks) but might rescue your disc.

If it's a mechanical error you're probably out of luck:

That may have been helpful this morning when I actuall posted my first panic attack using a computer running with that drive. But now it won't spin. Dead as a meat axe was the last diagnosis. I keep asking for them to take it out of its little box and put it in one that does spin. But we don't know how to do that. maybe if I tell the cops there is evidence of kiddy porn on it, they will recover it for me, then i can say i was mistaken, but thanks for rescuing my data

Originally Posted by beppe

Oh my. Poor. You will get over it, but what a pain. I arrange you in a very pleasant knot so you feel better.

Thanks My neck has been stiff all day. I must have slept wrong!. Your knot today and yoga tommorrow should help.

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Kepp trying, it might be salvageable !!!!!

Its looking increasingly like NOT! bugga!