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    Non data recovery job become data recovery from hell

    It's true in a way. I'm in IT support/repair/consulting for a bit more than 10 years now. I started cheap because I thought with my little experience on the job this is the way to attract customers. (And I had no business plan since I kind of slided into this business while I was actually...
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    WD Elements. Spins up. Clicks once after about 1-2 Minutes.

    The actual case is finished because the customer told me that she isn't able to pay more than 500$ overall. But maybe in the future if we can find a way that is good for both of us? To speak open. With my current lab partner it's like this: He does free analysis and binding cost forecast and...
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    WD Elements. Spins up. Clicks once after about 1-2 Minutes.

    Thank you very much for your good explanation. This means that they have to go to a lab since I don't have the equipment and skills to replace the heads. I guessed that this is the case and have handled it like this in the past (told the customers that we'd have to send them to a lab if they're...
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    WD Elements. Spins up. Clicks once after about 1-2 Minutes.

    Hello For my background you can have a look at my introduction thread if you like (https://www.data-medics.com/forum/hello-t2236.html) :) I have a question about a typical kind of failed external drive that I see quite often nowadays. It's about 2,5" WD Elements drives (I have a...
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    Hello :-)

    Hello I'm running a small IT repair and consulting business in central europe. Data recovery is neither my speciality nor what I do on a daily basis but I'm still regularly confronted with it by my customers. I have some basic experience in logical /software data recovery (disk imaging on...
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