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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1892034" data-attributes="member: 633">About 48 hours ago, the power company was doing some work in my area. When they powered up again, a surge completely destroyed my computer, despite the fact that it wasn't on at the time of the outage. I mean it. AC feed, motherboard, DVD burner, even the friggin' keyboard is toast. I'm not sure about the CPU, memory and PCI stuff, but only because I don't have anything to plug them into. Up to now, it looks like only the mouse survived. Legally, the company has no responsibility; the cause probably lies in my computer's AC feed, which must have been faulty. I can't otherwise explain such a disaster while nothing else in the house was affected.  Luckily, I kept copies of my important stuff on both hard disks, figuring the chance of both of them breaking down at the same moment to be fairly slim. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened. I lost a couple of months of D&D-related work, a couple weeks of Ultima Online Planescape related work, and about twenty days of my university thesis, which must be completed by the end of January. That's only the important stuff; there were gigabytes of data which I can recover from backups or from the internet... with a few days of work. Days which, if I have to start redoing twenty days of thesis, will be rather hard to find. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  So, I'm looking for a hard disk repair service. I don't have the foggiest idea of where you look for one; I've searched the internet and I've found a few in Italy. I'm also asking friends. But, for now, everything I found is terribly, terribly costly.  At this point, I'm willing to send the damaged disks overseas if I can find a relatively cheaper repair service in the USA. Which isn't too unlikely, with the current euro-dollar exchange rates.  Does any of you, by chance, know a reliable HD repair/data recovery service?</blockquote>

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