Are titles that are free, or free to try if they work (trials) and more.
But your post confuses me a little. If this was a backup drive, why would we need to recover files? I can guess that you meant you used it for storage instead of backup.
Good luck with the titles from the forum's top post or sticky.
Bob
My 1tb western digital hard drive has decided to stop working, I normally back up all of my files twice on seperate hard drives but have just come back from a month travelling and my pictures were, unfortunately, all on this one. There is around 500gig on it but the photos are all im bothered about.
Iv taken it to a computer shop who checked to see whether it was a fault with the casing, it wasn't. They say the fault is with the drive and have put me in contact with a data recovery company. The data recovery is being quoted at upwards of

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