the Price of Data Recovery Services

Data recovery is something that can range in price quite a bit, but I guess the justification for paying is determined by how important the data is. $300 included the transfer of the data from my broken hard drive to a working hard drive. No clue how they do it, but thank you. then I had to purchase a new hard drive at $100 which was the absolute cheapest they had. And finally the data was transfered back to the new hard drive and worked as good as new. I even had a little bit more storage than I had with my old hard drive.

This was one of those services that you hate to have to pay for, but it was very successful and considering the situation I couldn't be happier. My one complaint was that this large chain tried to sell me a bunch of diagnostic stuff that I didn't need. We'll see if it bites me in the butt, but I saw no reason for it. This entire process took about 8 days, which put my computer out of service, but I luckily have a laptop so I could fairly easily deal with the long wait. Ultimately it was a bad situation with a good experience and outcome.

This is a vulnerable situation and what you are willing to pay is basically determined by how important the lost information is. So before you throw down $300 think long and hard about if it's worth it. Everywhere is going to be expensive, that's just how computer repairs go.