🚀 go-pugleaf

I think it's important to note that there don't appear to be any lawyers in
this thread (actually, I do know of one lawyer that monitors this ng, but he
doesn't seem to have answered any of your posts) so no one here is really
justified to tell you how good your "evidence" is. Stick to listening to
actual lawyers. Watching LA Law and Ally McBeal doesn't qualify anyone to
give you legal advice.


In article <3664BCE9.E663B7A8@interchange.ubc.ca>,
  futang@interchange.ubc.ca wrote:
> 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
>
>

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