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The worst thing happened. I had ordered an external Lacie drive, two months ago. When it finally arrived, I started making a backup of my laptop and while the system was copying, it hang. I had to force it to shut down and discovered that the internal hard drive could not be found anymore! So I ended up with only a partial backup without pictures, desktop, music and movies folders, but luckily with the few recordings I made last week, during my holiday. And the original data, on the laptop drive is gone forever.

Apple is so "kind" to let me replace the drive for free (well, with the 446 EUR AppleCare Protection Plan that is), but no data will be recovered. I was informed that data recovery is insanely expensive. Since my work data is available on my desktop PC and I made a backup of the laptop data in june, I can not justify paying data recovery costs.

My advice: backup and then run away for the computer and go have a drink or light a candle to hope nothing bad happens!