all4tribal1414779019 Posted June 25 Report Share Posted June 25 I took my pc to a local computer shop about a month or so ago, due to my computer not booting up correctly, well the dude said he would back up everything, ect...so what he did was switch out my old hd with his hard drive, than he moved 50-70% of the files to "his" hard drive(the one currently in my pc) and told me all the files were under my documents, which till this day i have not found them.my question is...since he gave me his hd, can i still have my old hd regardless if it works or not? im missing alot of files that he never backed up on, just worried since it's been a while i hope he still has my old hd.regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted June 25 Report Share Posted June 25 He should have given it back to you regardless of the condition of the old hardware. We had a drive crash on us last year, and when they did the recovery, they sent the old one back to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Buck White Posted June 25 Report Share Posted June 25 Sh*t. I think I'm going to make a back-up of my back-up soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest coach Posted June 25 Report Share Posted June 25 Yes, unless he specifically tells you he is not giving you the old HD back, he should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xbbdc Posted June 25 Report Share Posted June 25 i dont see a reason as to why he would not give it back.. he is either going to try to format it and re-sell it or throw it away. there is no other use for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jbit Posted June 26 Report Share Posted June 26 the fact that he's in posession of something with all your personal documents in it, is reason alone to ask for it back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4tribal1414779019 Posted June 26 Author Report Share Posted June 26 that's what i thought, thanks guys...im gonna go in tomorrow and hope that he still has it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest swirlundergrounder Posted June 26 Report Share Posted June 26 The only reason they don't give hard drives back is when the hard drive is totally worthless or beyond repair if you return the hard drive to the original manufacturer and they replace it with a new one. In those are rare cases.In your case, you should have gotten back your hard drive. Hopfully what you had on there was not very important info that you could live without. Otherwise data recovery is going to cost you several thousand dollars... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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