As of 5pm in the Chicago area, I still don't have full service. I received a call, missed it and it went to voice mail. I tried from my home phone calling my cell to receive it and was surprised to get the message that my number was disconnected or no longer in service....
As of 4:30 when I finally got a hold of AT&T, there was still no ETA for total resolution....
I think they are way off base. The question isn't really can you recover the data leaving the drive intact. I think most would agree that you can't. You would need to get into the inner workings of the drive... a much more expensive process. Very labor intensive and not something that they are going to do for $40. Possibly if the purse was 10K or greater, and once received the drive could be destroyed in the process.
Anyone that has sent out "dead" drives for recovery knows that when they are returned they will in most cases have been disassembled.
This is just a lame attempt to give the appearance that the data can not be recovered.
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As of 5pm in the Chicago area, I still don't have full service. I received a call, missed it and it went to voice mail. I tried from my home phone calling my cell to receive it and was surprised to get the message that my number was disconnected or no longer in service ....
As of 4:30 when I finally got a hold of AT&T, there was still no ETA for total resolution ....
I think they are way off base. The question isn't really can you recover the data leaving the drive intact. I think most would agree that you can't. You would need to get into the inner workings of the drive ... a much more expensive process. Very labor intensive and not something that they are going to do for $40. Possibly if the purse was 10K or greater, and once received the drive could be destroyed in the process.
Anyone that has sent out "dead" drives for recovery knows that when they are returned they will in most cases have been disassembled.
This is just a lame attempt to give the appearance that the data can not be recovered.