On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 07:00 AM Wednesday 3/22/2006, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without F&R?
>
> Spinrite might do it, it's a dos thing. Don't have a copy handy
> unfortunately, my windows stuff is all in Cyprus (and I'm in Oz
> still with my iBook...).
>
Just as curiosity, I checked the spinrite site. How can this
recovery HD software cost _more_ than the price of a new HD?
(Someone else may have answered by now.) To a business frex which
may go out of business if the customer files or proprietary product
information on the disk are irretrievably lost, the data is far
more valuable than the couple of hundred dollars a typical hard
drive costs.
Are they insane?
They know what their product/service is worth to the right client.
You judge.
David Pogue recently did a story on DriveSavers, a company that does
data recovery from soaked, smashed, bashed, burned or "_may_-have-
been-hit" hard drives. The repairs to his drive cost about $2700.
Pogue could have bought himself a couple of laptop computers for that
price, leave alone a hard drive.
For a "game" drive, the cost is the inconvenience of having to locate
the original CDs (and their licenses -- you no doubt bought them fair
and square) and reinstall, then kick a bunch of AI butt to get back
to where you were. I'm about 70% of the way through "Need for Speed
Underground 2", and you better believe I keep a backup of my game. I
out-drove a helluva lot of AIs to get where I am :-).
For a business drive, the cost is whatever you think your career is
worth.
Dave
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