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courier8377 [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

2w ago

Anybody have tips for data retrieval for noobs? Seems my laptop is dead

Should i take it in somewhere? Buy drives to hold the data? How much $ am i gonna be set back?

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Real professional data recovery is expensive as fuck. Like, starting at thousands and going up from there. But throwing the drive from the dead laptop into a usb drive reader is very cheap. How did the laptop die and what kind of drive is it?
- Battery/charging issues, seems kind of working now when plugged in, will look at transferring data off the ssd if/when i need to transfer data over
  
  Yeah you don't need data recovery, worst case you buy a thing like this or maybe this depending on the type of ssd.
  
  This is the correct answer. The drive is likely fine and readable if you are able to connect it to a different computer
  
  sounds extremely fixable
  take it to a shop, they can perhaps repair it for not too much
  now is the perfect time to think about backups in the future in case your computer does get permahosed.
  borgbase.com will give you 10GB of free backup space which you can use with FLOSS Vorta application. 10GB doesn't sound like much but it uses an extreme form of compression so it goes a long way. Use it for your documents and most special pictures/videos. Make sure you read carefully what is required to get back your data!

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