.:saved:.

So, as some of you know, I had a laptop that totally fried quite a long time ago. I've just held on to it knowing there were loads of pics on there that I MUST have! No way was I going to rewrite the harddrive and lose them all. Mostly from Cash's birth and when he was very young...
I took the laptop into Geek Squad, who told me it shouldn't be a big deal, but that they had to send it off to their offsite lab. Alright. First they needed a deposit from me. $400. Ok. My pics are worth $400 and they said they'd likely be refunding me most of it anyway.

I get a call many days later saying they were not able to get anything off the harddrive, unless they do a "level 3 recovery" where they take the harddrive into a "safe room" and retrieve the info that way. Cost of this lovely "level 3"? Base=$1550. No, not TOTAL, BASE.
Needless to say, I had them send it back to me, untouched.

So my friend Tami suggests I send the harddrive to her and let her take it to her usual computer place. She says they are pretty good with viruses and such; so I give it a whirl. I want these pictures, after all, and I'll do anything to get them--except give Geek Squad my right arm just because they want me to.

I send the harddrive up-and less than 2 weeks later get the news from these guys. They are able to retrieve not only my pictures-but every file on the harddrive! WITHOUT EVEN A LEVEL 3 SAFE ROOM RETRIEVING SCAM! The cost for this amazing job? $60. That is right, sixty dollars. Not $400. Not $1550+. $60. I am eternally grateful. (and to Tami for suggesting it!)

So please-if you have computer issues... take a trip to XSComputers. http://www.xscomputers.com/

Here are just a few pictures that were saved, you can see why they are so important:

These are just a few.... there are many many many more that I'm so thankful to have again.