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PC World warranty - Data Recovery ?

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  • cuscosteff
    cuscosteff Posts: 7 Forumite
    Cheers everyone for the responses much appreciated. .now to ponder options of getting all the photos off the drive :)
  • scheming_gypsy
    scheming_gypsy Posts: 18,410 Forumite
    Make an anonymous phone call to the police and tell them 'you' have been bragging about making home made bombs / other illegal stuff. They'll have everything recovered in no time.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    cuscosteff wrote: »
    Cheers everyone for the responses much appreciated. .now to ponder options of getting all the photos off the drive :)


    If it's an external drive, then it's essentially a hard drive within a USB enclosure. So the first step should be to remove it from the enclosure, and connect it directly within a desktop PC as a secondary drive. If the enclosure is the faulty part, then it will work within the PC and allow copy/paste of the files.

    If it doesn't work within the PC, you need to look at other solutions.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    googler wrote: »
    If it's an external drive, then it's essentially a hard drive within a USB enclosure. So the first step should be to remove it from the enclosure, and connect it directly within a desktop PC as a secondary drive. If the enclosure is the faulty part, then it will work within the PC and allow copy/paste of the files.

    If it doesn't work within the PC, you need to look at other solutions.

    Which makes a warranty replacement a no go
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    custardy wrote: »
    Which makes a warranty replacement a no go

    Which would you prefer?

    Take a good shot at getting your own data back, and void the warranty, or

    Keep the warranty and take a gamble that the dweeb at PCW will care at all about your data

    ???
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    googler wrote: »
    Which would you prefer?

    Take a good shot at getting your own data back, and void the warranty, or

    Keep the warranty and take a gamble that the dweeb at PCW will care at all about your data

    ???

    well the OP hasnt tried anything yet
    what I prefer it moot
    its down to the OP making an educated choice
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