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Thanks for those who have been concerned about my case. I got 31
valuable messages.
My computer went down because of the HD and it took me two days to put
up another computer. And Meanwhile, I talked to several lawyers. After
hearing my case, they all thought I had a big chance to win the case
because I can sue them for their negligence. I told them several time
that I wanted to keep the data and they ignored. But the point is how
much I can claim. Of course, two years Ph.D. worth far more than
$10,000. However, it is really difficult to estimate. One of the lawyers
really liked to take my case and she asked me to get my original HD
back. I did it. I also talked to the guy who is responsible but not the
boss and asked whether there is any chance to recover the data because
many people advised to do so. And the guy 100% surely said NO! He said
even though I killed the person who made the mistake, it would not help
to get back the data. And he also told me several times that he had
recovery software and tried and it was impossible. I'll try to talk to
him again and try to record what he says.
Fortunately, I downloaded a program today and try to recover my HD. It
list a lot of my files and seems recoverable. At least this provide
evidence that my HD originally contained data and it might be
recoverable after they erased my three primary partition (the guy who
did it blamed me for that before he found he made a terrible mistake),
and repartitioned into one, and installed Windows 98 and then deleted
every thing include the second time partition (I got the HD and it has
no partition at all). This might mean that they did not try to recover
it at all. On the contrary, they tried to make my HD look like there was
nothing before I took to them.
This HD did not went down. It only had random write and read error. A
program reported that by just writing files from small to big and read
and compare. This make sense, doesn't it? My problem was a lot of my big
files were corrupted after I copied from my old HD or downloaded from
the net. Since Windows registry is a big file, it has error frequently.
Some anti virus program can not be installed successfully. And I don't
know why. But I used several most recent anti virus program to scan my
HD from another computer and no virus was found.
While I have to blame myself for my trusting HD too much (I already
learned this lesson), I'll say if they just repartitioned my HD, I might
be able to recover my most important data which were on D: and E:
originally (I believe their installation of the system only occupied the
first part of the HD). If they just leave my HD like the state that they
just installed Windows 98, not further did something mystery, there will
be a good chance to recover most of my important data.
I need suggestions about:
    1) if you think I have strong evidence to sue them, please advice (I
also have the copy of the email telling them to keep my data).
    2) if you think my evidence is not so strong, please advice (I did
not record what they said and did not sign any agreement).

Thank you very much for your attention.

Futang Zhang
University of BC
(604) 822-3750