*wonders if this post can get any further off-topic*

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First , I did not metion that the waste of time was about you, but mine.
You need to learn english or need to understand what you read. Do not think that the words of the world are all made for you are so important.
About do not know when to stop, oh boy oh boy.... maybe I do not know.
I even will stopt to write here because in this moment in my most profund feellings words are the last thing that I would like to have in my fingerprints, I suppose to say to people that say comments like this ... I have adress ID and maybe you want .... Can be a great experience to see this maybe who knows,.,,, anyway as I told you I have adress ID you can solve this very quickly, be my guest.
And also enough. I already wrote what I think and I will not write again .. only my adress if you think that you have interest ...
But remeber this will not be a thing to show the world but soemthing between 2 man, so PM ME. Read and try to undertsand now the real means of this msg, ok ?

Hi pepe

Thanks for your wise comments.

I'm an Electronics Eng by trade with substantial experience in FW, electronic technology and IT etc...etc... so I naturally *need* to learn to stay alive. So maybe I'm just disappointed by 'seek professional help' comments as I would have preferred to have learnt a little about the technology behind HDD recovery. And that often means asking those skilled in the art and those with much experience (at least compared to myself).

When I started my research into data recovery I found myself asking, how can so many professional HDD repair centres exist? I don't believe there are the number of professional personnel to supply this great number of these centres so I began to suspect there was a suite of software/hardware tool vendors - and I came across PC3000! and various others...

Now I've really driven this thread off-topic - my apologies

Lea