And if you REALLY want to spend money, Best Buy once was able to send a fried hard drive out for me to have the platter read. That was a special case - my son's graduation photos - and it cost a few hundred bucks over a decade ago, but it's not impossible. And yes, they were able to recover the photos.
"...And then I thought, every time some company creates a more powerful locomotive does Superman become more powerful as well or is he stuck at 1938 locomotive power levels?" - A friend of mine elsewhere
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