As some of you know, I used to do a lot of computer consulting.  I don’t do it much anymore as I had a bad customer in the past that soured the whole experience for me.  But, I still help my existing customers, and today I found myself out fixing computers.

The reason that I was called out was that they needed a formatted hard drive recovery.  It seems that the child of my client accidentally formatted their work computer.  Unfortunately, they had no backup of the data on the machine, so it was up to me to get everything sorted out.

This wasn’t the first time that I had this experience, and I had some disk recovery software with me for situations just like this.  Sure, the software was not cheap, but it has made my life much easier.

It only took about an hour for me to complete the hard disk recovery and I was able to save her data.  I also showed her how to lock her computer to hopefully prevent this situation from occurring again.