Robs Usability Development : Silverlight, ASP.NET, Ajax, Agile, MVC & Volta

Yes, you read it correctly, I am a very very stupid man. Let me explain.

About 7 months ago I purchased one of those on-line backup accounts. My intention was to put all my important data there, all my documents, photos etc. I had seen some hard disk crashes and stolen laptops and had decided that that was not the situation I wanted to get into.

And I really meant it at the time, but I was too busy, not making time for it and kept putting it off.

And guess what? my hard drive crashed! And it crashed big time, windows sees it sometimes, sometimes not, sometimes I see something that resembles a directory structure and again sometimes it shows nothing. But the data is inaccessible.

I have tried a wide variety of tools and boot cd’s including PCInspector, Ultimate BootCD and Rescue Disk. And have tried to access it internally and trough a USB casing and even in Linux and Dos. I’m kind of out of options. It doesn’t sound very broken but the computer doesn’t really now what to do with it.

Now I have moved to the Data Recovery companies, yes it is expensive, but that is what the data is worth to me. There are a couple, but I wanted a Dutch speaking one, I have singled out an international (Spanish) company that has a Dutch office: Aigon.

I have spoken with them and they seem OK, but I was kind of wondering if anyone had any experience with them or with other companies doing this work. Like to hear from you and your experiences.

This is not something you can try a few times :).

So if you have any ideas, all the input is very much welcome.

Robertjan "Very Stupid" Tuit