<div dir="auto">There is a difference between dead and dying. If she can still access the contents start copying them immediately.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">David Lees <br>From Pixel 3 XL</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, 2:16 PM Shelly Lowenthal <<a href="mailto:shelly.lowenthal@gmail.com">shelly.lowenthal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div 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 <<a href="mailto:denise@rcn.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">denise@rcn.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Hi all.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">I hope someone has a suggestion : )<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></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?)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">should we be looking to hire a data recovery person?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">or is there anything we can do with this?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">any suggestions on what to do next? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">denise<u></u><u></u></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: <a href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/private.cgi/lctg-toku.us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://lists.toku.us/private.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a></span><br><span>To subscribe: email <a href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a></span><br><span>Future and Past meeting information: <a href="http://LCTG.toku.us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://LCTG.toku.us</a></span><br><span>List information: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a></span><br><span>This message was sent to <a href="mailto:shelly.lowenthal@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">shelly.lowenthal@gmail.com</a>.</span><br><span>Set your list options: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/shelly.lowenthal@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/shelly.lowenthal@gmail.com</a></span></div></blockquote></div>===============================================<br>
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