Data recovery on an Iomega portable drive.

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Published on 2010-01-11T22:06:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 19:01 UTC
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For Christmas, my little brother got an Iomega 500GB portable hard drive. It'd been working well, but last week it flat died, and the company's trying to shirk it, claiming it's not under warranty and saying it'll cost at least $900 to recover the data from the drive. He's still trying to fight the warranty thing, but wants to know, should it boil down to it, what other options exist for recovering the data from the drive.

(in before "BACK UP!")

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