NorthWest Arkansas Cachers

I've been fighting with my computers for the last almost 48 hours. My brand new computer I just built tis dead ~ fried. My 160 and 120 gig hard drives that I had in the old computer are dead ~ fried. I'm now using a 30 gig that was in an old computer my husband was using. I do not have any of the files/programs I did have. I've lost everything that wasn't backed up in the last 3-4 years, which means I've lost EVERYTHING. I am truly, utterly, devastated. None of it can ever be recovered. My only hope tis to pay Best Buy (or someone else, hopefully cheaper) to recover the data on the 160 and 120 gig hard drives, and hope it will work.

Tis there any computer hardware geniuses out there that can help me ?

I might be able to help you. PM me the info on what the drives are doing (noises they may be making), and if they are IDE (ribbon cables) or SATA (smaller cable). I'm not sure when I will have time, but if you have an external drive or something that everything can be copied to it "should" be a fairly easy process. If not everything can be burnt to DVD's but I'm not sure I would have the time to do all that as my schedule is kind of busy and the dvd thing definitely takes time.

BTW, if everything can be accessed with relative ease, and you don't need the dvd copy method I would do this free of charge. I know how painful it can be to loose a drive.

That goes to show that it could happen anytime. When we came back from vacation a couple weeks ago I could tell that there had been a storm with lightning and at least one strike hit close. Four lightbulbs were blown and the microvave was toast. Godfather, you wouldn't happen to know about microwaves too?

Godfather, you wouldn't happen to know about microwaves too? Very Happy

Nope, but I can sure tell you some places to buy a new one lol