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burlmart
Explorer
Jul 20, 2014

No excuses, no backup, but would like to recover HD data

We bought a Dell Inspiron 3520 & Win 8 about 15 months ago at BB. 320Gb hard disk (Samsung SATA) failed. Never had this happen before, so never made the W8 backup disks to get reinstall OS on a ne...
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burlmart
Explorer
Jul 21, 2014
BB took it in a back alley and returned saying they could not recover any data and to send it off.

Looks like Excel redo. We got a second external backup USB (now I see why you should make 2 backups).

Bought a new 500Gb Seagate laptop HD and await recovery media from Dell.

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