Nasty, nasty virus deleted my restore points

[loopdiloop]

I will let you know, thanks Ken

[loopdiloop]

Just got the results. Wow am i bummed. Hard drive is toast and data cannot be recovered by conventional means. They have to send it out to a data recovery center and estimate just to retrieve data is like $800-900.

I did not back up my data! Let this be a lesson to anyone who doesn't. My worst nightmare.

[ken545]

Yep, data recovery is very expensive. To late now but what I would do if there is a Costco close to you , look in the computer section and they have external hard drives that connect via USB and include back up software, you can back up all your data to one of those, last time I looked they had two, one by Seagate ( doesn't get any better than that ) and they both ran around $50 or so, well worth the cost.

How old is your computer , is it still on warranty, I think most hard drives are warranted for about 2 years, you may want to call your them and find out

Ken