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My computer started making occasional weird noises and occasionally blue screened. Being the genius that I am, I didn't really look into it due to lack of time. Now my hard drive can't boot windows, or even repair windows. I'd really like to get some data recovered off my hard drive before I send it in under warranty, being that I have pictures from my trip to Germany, music, and whatnot on there that I never backed up.
Anyone know good places to use for data recovery?
I called seagate and their service would cost 1700 bucks, which just isn't worth it.
Also, is there any chance i could just plug it in as a secondary harddrive when my new one gets in and has windows installed on it, and then try and grab some files off of it, or would that corrupt it more?

I live in the Edmonton area if that helps.