Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

I am usually pretty good about backing up my important personal & business data on my many pcs & external hard drives. But the hard drive my employee just re-installed in my laptop failed yesterday, and there are two weeks worth of recent data I would like to recover. The needle of the hard drive is clicking, so it's a mechanical issue for certain, not something software can fix. My employee, who knows a bit about this stuff, tried to take the hard drive apart and re-set the needle himself, but the top of the drive enclosure wouldn't really come apart easily. I think the whole drive itself needs to come out of the enclosure and be mechanically fixed with a working needle or other parts and in a new enclosure to even have a chance of recovering that data

This drive has a lot of my sensitive personal information, most of which is backed up elsewhere luckily. I am not interested in sending the drive off somewhere. Can anyone recommend someone in South FL who is a whiz with computer hardware that can do the microsurgery necessary to have a chance at recovering this data?