[IRCA] My HD failure final chapter.

[Walter Salmaniw <salmaniw@xxxxxxx>]

After shopping around a fair bit and comparing services, I've elected to send the defective HD to a disk recovery service in Vancouver.  It appears that many (?most) services are Chinese...at least that's the case in Canada.
The outfit I chose has offices in China and a number of cities around the world.  The prices were far better than what's available here in Victoria.  Looks like my 500 GB HD will run around $900 to recover the data.  They 
have about a 90% success rate.  At the same time I'm sending over a dead 120 GB HD that my son had with him on his Singapore to Gdansk sailing trip this year which contained all of his digital photos.  That one runs
$500.  Since I considered both HDs to contain "once in a lifetime" stuff, I bit the bullet and took the plunge.  Chuck, I tried everything to have Windows recognize the drive, but no luck whatsoever.  Wanda is going over 
to Vancouver tomorrow with a girlfriend, and has agreed to drop it off, along with a new 500 GB HD to transfer the data to.  It'll take around a week to do, Lord willing!  I'll report back on how things have gone next
week, and if I'm lucky (it's time for my luck to improve, I suspect), I'll finally be able to transfer those great .wav files to Chuck's HD, which I'll then be able to send back your way......Fingers crossed!!!!    ..........Walt.

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