Should i take it in somewhere? Buy drives to hold the data? How much $ am i gonna be set back?

  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    Real professional data recovery is expensive as fuck. Like, starting at thousands and going up from there. But throwing the drive from the dead laptop into a usb drive reader is very cheap. How did the laptop die and what kind of drive is it?

      • glans [it/its]@hexbear.net
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        21 hours ago

        sounds extremely fixable

        take it to a shop, they can perhaps repair it for not too much

        now is the perfect time to think about backups in the future in case your computer does get permahosed.

        borgbase.com will give you 10GB of free backup space which you can use with FLOSS Vorta application. 10GB doesn’t sound like much but it uses an extreme form of compression so it goes a long way. Use it for your documents and most special pictures/videos. Make sure you read carefully what is required to get back your data!