Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So sorry to hear of your downer drive I used these folks a couple months ago to retrieve my data Gillware Inc. 8417 Excelsior Drive Suite 175 Madison, WI 53717 phone (877) 624-7206 fax (608) 827-3061 local (608) 829-2533 very expensive they retrieved everything from the drive if you need the data do not send the unit back to seagate until you've retrieved the data i doubt seagate will care about your data they will simply send a new drive Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Sep 30, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > LUG: > > I have a Seagate external hard drive - 1T - which is less than two > months old. Yesterday it started making whirring sounds and > couldn't be recognized by either my laptop or desktop. Today it > won't even come on. I tried switching out cables and power > supplies with other Seagates that I know work. Nothing. It's > under warranty but if I send it back, I lose almost two months of > scans, over 500GB, and 8 GB of photos that I downloaded from cards > last week and had not yet backed up :-( (I know that's stupid, but > it's a brand new drive and I was going to back it up before I leave > town on Friday.) If I open up the case and try to see what's > wrong, I void the warranty. > > Has anybody got any suggestions for bringing this thing back to > life before I send it back to Seagate? I'm not a happy camper this > morning. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information