I have backups of mostly everything I ever do. I use Dropbox lots of things, I regularly back up my whole hard drive where I store
most of my data.
However, for some reason I haven't been backing up one of my drives which, coincidentally is the drive where I work on and have been developing a web application (my first start up) for over two months! I have partial backups of old stuff, but not on my main project (hard to believe, I know)
Anyways. Can you guys recommend any great data recovery services online where I can ship my hard drive where I'll get good service? I've tried traditional methods and I'm trying your usual computer repair services tomorrow, but I'm pretty pessimistic and expecting the worst.
Many generic computer repair services will not do data recovery because of the amount of time it takes and the liability of data loss. Dedicated data recovery services are typically expensive, for both reasons. Happily, you can frequently get all or most of it back.
One self-help option, depending on how severe the failure is, is booting from a live CD. If you can successfully mount the drive (i.e. something is preventing it from booting rather than totally making it unreadable), then you can often get all or most of the data off to another drive with just a simple copy.