Originally Posted by wedouglas

The fuse in the basement blew and it killed my HD. 40 GB of music I've spent years gathering. All gone. I had some memorable pictures that were important to me lost too Sad More pissed about that. I was able to get most of em, but lost a couple and I'm rather upset about it. I think it's kind of based on luck if I can still get them. I downloaded half of one before it stopped responding.

Windows will see it and recognize it fine until you select a bad file or something. Then the HD disapears. I can get some stuff, probably a lot of it, but it's a super slow and tedious process. When you pick the wrong file, you have to have windows look for the HD again.

I also have to get files via firefox. Normal windows is super slow when trying to access it.

Any idea how much those places which try to restore HD costs? I hear they are kind of expensive, but maybe the home owner insurance will cover it. I'd pay quite a bit if I could get this back.