<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Data recovery is possible but expensive (I had to do it in 1994). Always best to store important data on two drives, never just on one.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Shelly Lowenthal</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 19, 2021, at 1:34 PM, Denise <denise@rcn.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Hi all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">I hope someone has a suggestion : )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">My daughter has a windows 10 p.c. desktop; and she plugged in an HDD external hard drive (that has a USB cable on one end & power plug on the other end) into her p.c. and apparently the HDD is dying (or dead?)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">She plugged it in and hears a noise. And when she goes to ‘my computer’ it’s not seen there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">should we be looking to hire a data recovery person?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">or is there anything we can do with this?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">any suggestions on what to do next? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">denise<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><span>===============================================</span><br><span>::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::</span><br><span>Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.</span><br><span>Send to the list: LCTG@lists.toku.us Message archives: http://lists.toku.us/private.cgi/lctg-toku.us</span><br><span>To subscribe: email lctg-subscribe@toku.us To unsubscribe: email lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</span><br><span>Future and Past meeting information: http://LCTG.toku.us</span><br><span>List information: http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</span><br><span>This message was sent to shelly.lowenthal@gmail.com.</span><br><span>Set your list options: http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/shelly.lowenthal@gmail.com</span></div></blockquote></body></html>