Remember that crappy WD Passport 160GB that dropped about a foot and died on me completely? Well, you will be glad to know that the data within the drive has been almost completely recovered. 120GB of it, by a company I dealt with in the States: First Advantage Data Recovery to the tune of US$1,400! …
WD’s guts, originally uploaded by malyousif. So far a recovery program is reporting every single sector it comes across as bad. I didn’t believe that a little drop would affect a supposed “portable” drive that much… I have revised my estimation of this thing, it is a piece of crap.