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[the_rck]

It's looking more and more like my files are irretrievable. Scott can't get the backups to transfer. He's been trying for hours. He can see them on the backup drive, but every effort to transfer has failed. I suspect I will spend all week with no computer beyond my phone and quite possibly longer than that. I have things I absolutely can't do without my files. I can't, to example, access the patient portal or anything for Cordelia's school.

I have no idea what to do.

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[rosefox]

Oh! I thought from your other post that the files weren't on the backup drive. If you can see them, a data recovery specialist can access them. Google "data recovery [your geographical location]" and something should come up in the nearest big city, or there are services you can send the drive to for recovery.

They might even be able to get files off your dead drive if it comes to that. Data reco techs are wizards.

[the_rck]

Unfortunately, hiring anyone for data recovery is out of reach right now and for the foreseeable future. I might be able to pay as much as $30 (but that would be very hard to justify for things that aren't life critical), but it looks like the cheapest such services, locally, start at $50.