Leon,
I don't want to be redundant on this issue, but what about getting the images from the card(s). I'll give you this link before I give up (in which you posted previously). I think there is some reference to hard drives.

What if you lost your digital images?

Wow! What an incredible loss........or rather an expensive one.

Liz

Quote Originally Posted by Lionheart
Unfortunately we've been down this road before with mechanical failures on drives. Extracting data from a fried hard drive takes a long time.The last time this happened it was a 160 GB drive, took 2 months with the drive running 24 hours a day before they extracted the data off the drive, then they had to piece them back together on a new drive. according to the company we sent to, it takes just as much time to extract 1 gb as it does 160, because the entire drive needs to be combed. The faster we want the data back, the more it costs. We went with the slow option, and it cost about $1400. Oh well...a lot of those photos were baptisms at church, and now the pastor wants photos to bring with him to a conference and i don't have them.:-( Fortunately, the practice related photos are always backed up in three places on our network, so the ones I had on my laptop were dispensable.
Leon