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1. sw
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   It was inevitable - the 8 year old PC finally overheated and died. Of course this happened two days before I planned on pulling off all the photos, music, etc. Anyone have a recommendation on a service to pull my data off the hard drive?

   Posted 2 years ago #         

2. clark5080
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   What died your power supply or your hard drive?

   Posted 2 years ago #         

3. Kevin
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   I had a similar experience about a year ago. I would highly recommend NOT DOING ANYTHING more until you talk to Rob Shiras at PC Mobile Help in the Junction.
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   I thought I was going to lose about 10 years of photos and documents but Rob and his crew were able to completely restore my computer back to optimal shape. ALL data and programs were saved!
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   It may be expensive, but if anyone can save your data, Rob is the person to take your PC to.
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   http://www.pcmobilehelp.com/
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   (206) 686-8682
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   Posted 2 years ago #         

4. Ken
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   I can recover it if the drive itself is still recognizable by any computer. I do drive imaging for every computer I work on.

   I usually use ubuntu live or clonzilla but I have several other tools that can recover data even from damaged, erased or lost partitions.

   I work for donations only and if you're unemployed, on SS or SSI or on public assistance of any kind I can do the work for free.

   If you want to learn how to do it yourself, I can talk you through it over the phone, but you will need another computer with a cd drive and a connector like the original drive.

   My email address is linked to my name above and my google voice number is:
   8010fix
   (206) 801-0349

   I am up early. Real early. So you could drop it off before work and I could have it ready by afternoon.

   Chances are I could fix the pc also. I like the ones other people say are dead :) If it's really dead I can recycle the parts for others or pull them to add to your replacement.

   Clark5080: Hard drive standard op temp is pretty high. Max temp will boil water pretty quick. Most of the time heat damages the CPU. Next most likely is ram, GPU/videocard and power supply. Some mainboards will survive the overheating of the cpu but not a power supply failure.

   If the magic smoke got out then the board, chip and often ram, are toast.

   Posted 2 years ago #         

5. celeste17
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   I have used both PC Mobile and Ken. Both are good people. I like Ken as he is very confident and very helpful. I would give Ken a yell.

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6. clark5080
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   Understand Ken but I have had a power supply that smoked also. But again ti is 8 years old it could be anything

   Posted 2 years ago #         

7. sw
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   Thanks for the feedback, folks. Giving Ken a shout right now.

   Posted 2 years ago #         

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