Just to let you be aware that - starting today November 20 - Staples EasyTech Services will have HD Recovery Services available under a partnership agreement with Seagate. Like all other HD recovery services there can be no guarantee of success. Customers can walk up to the EasyTech counter and drop off any make or brand of digital storage container—hard drives from laptops, desktops, iPods, or external drives; RAID storage arrays; flash drives; optical drives; digital videocams; and tape and optical media, including CDs and DVDs. In each store, Staples' staff will utilize Seagate Recovery Services' expertise and resources to provide a free evaluation of the media, determine the cost of recovery and, once approved by the customer, try to recover the data. Service costs will vary, but most hard drive data recovery projects will cost between about $200 and $2,000. You will get a guarantee that if Seagate and Staples can't recover the data, there will be no charge to you. Source i_Xp/VistaUser

Further to the above, Seagates claimed that they were able to save data about 98 percent of the time. The recovered data will be given to you on an external USB HD with a two years limited warranty. i_Xp/VistaUser