jaylucs

So whats this mea exactly? I dont see anything here from 2013....

You're absoluely right, it is a civil matter for the physical property. The intellectual property is what is the kicker (no way in hell a massage therapist could ever develop; does not have the authority to take away without asking my civil right to make money and pursue happiness). Some of the stuff on there was 10 years older than our relationship. There is no value since it isnt replacable. You know people who do this type of thing to a former employer go to prison for a long time? In my personal opionion she shouldve been arrested on the spot for grand theft.

1 drive is really the bread and butter of both. They said $2000 and up (max 4000) but that things like this typically go between 14-1800. I cant rememeber exactly the name of the program but I do remember them saying its a GSA (federal government schedule authorized) method the rewrites each sector 2+ times. a) GSA methods vary greatly depending on classification of media (unclassified to top secret). bulls**t goes a long way in the industry, $2000 from a smuck whining abou his childs photos would help a newly started company. So I really cant say for sure, they werent honest with me from the start and anything they said cant really be trusted without validation. To be honest I cant drop 2 grand with the chance I wont get it back exactly how it left. Sure I can sue for the cost of it, but 5,000 is the limit on small claims in this state. The delay of the launch, lost revenue and dividends - its well over 5k.

So basically a discgruntled now ex gf of mine decided to jack my s**t before she left me and drop them at a local tech place to complete data wipe. An HP elitebook 5600 and my custom built engineer/game desktop (notebook Win7 ult x32, Desktop wn7 home prem x64) 1) The police and the company she took them to refuse to work with me, since we lived together its "common property" and therefore a civil matter, even though I have all documents and recipts of parts, warranties, serial numbers etc.. they wont throw her in jail. 2) They really made me pay $183 to get my own god dam hardware back fo work i didnt EVER authorize, and didnt make a backup (like %99 sure its SoP at all places to backup eveything in the event its stolen and store it for 30 days). I even notified them within 10 hours of the arrival. To top it off "Nicole Gibson" used on the workorder <--- REDFLAG ANYONE? 3) They quoted me $2000 each disk (3 total - 1 for monthly automated backups and 1 for each system) to recover my data... LOL? Problem: So i finally got my hardware back and im trying to research the absolute best and safest way to go about this without jeapordizing the integrity of the drives in I have to sue her (which im going to either way, just means more money in my pocket) Right now im using TestDisk to analyze the drive for any information that may exist about previous files. No volume information is avaialble and I assume I will also have to use TestDisk to create a seeable mountpoint for Recuva to do its thing? I had literally about $900 in recent investments and well over a year of R&D to launch my own website, which was supposed to go live 3 days from now. (now probably never) But, I still want to save all my files and crap I cant really ask a small claims court to place a value on. Lets face it, if i developed this kind of thing for a corporation... in 1 year id earn roughly $60,000 ad thats a quite modest figure in California. So please, advice... I have never even thought of doing such a diabolically evil thing to someone. Thanks, Jay