Help! I lost my life (Again)!

Hi

I am a need of help to get back something that could be considered 'my
life' - its actually a content of an 60GB IBM Deskstar HD (I know those are
known to be bad!) - this HD contains a lot of my projects from what I do not
have backups. In the matter of fact I used that HD to hold old backups from
older disks. The disk drive started todo the famous clicking sound last
week.

I have asked for quote to restore some folder from the HD from an UK based
company, the prelim quote was 275 UKP (I only asked to recover on directory
so final quote may be higher).

I can not spend such a sum at the moment. So if anyone feels like ready to
help then I accept any donations - the only thing I can promise in return is
that I will burn 1 DVD with the recovered files (in unedited form, all of
them!) and send it to anyone who donates 10+ USD for the 'antti-recovery'
project !
http://wiki.openchip.org/index.php/Main_Page
not all projects I wanted to be donated have been uploaded, some of them are
possible on the malfunctioning harddisk :(

Please dont ask what is on the disk, it used to be main HD in my
workstation, and it holds also copies from at least 2 older hard disks.

Antti
PS to explain the (again) - for about 6 years ago I did over-work
brain-overheat (ended up for 1 month in hospital and had to re-learn to
speak and walk!), my mom did blame my PC in that and BURNED it. So I lost
the last version of an commercial RISC compiler (amongst other projects)
that I was selling for profit for many years. Well there was something that
survived that burn, a girl I had met a few weeks earlier is now my wife and
we have 3 kids.

PPS the HD I need to be recovered has a restored backup of that compiler,
and also some CD to HD backups.


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