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[countryjake]

25. Losing your family pictures, the history, is more than heartbreaking.

Surely there must be someone, somehow, who can help fix that thing to get your photos back! It seems in this magical age of electronics, there are plenty of experts who are capable of just about anything and so many have found themselves unemployed, surely you could find one who might do what's needed without charging you an arm and a leg. Maybe, if there's a college nearby, you could take that hard-drive to their computer dept and see if the instructor would be able to use your damaged gizmo as a teaching moment for the students, something like that?

When I first moved to Washington state with my baby (thirty five yr ago, now), I left behind boxes and boxes full of my lifetime of snapping pictures, including all of the recent ones I'd taken of my almost three year old daughter. Tucked away in the corner of an upstairs bedroom of an ancient Ohio farmhouse that I'd rented with my brother, those boxes fell victim to the chewing spitting hungry jaws of a horde of termites. Practically every single photo was destroyed and the ones that they did not eat were spattered or encased in their cement-like excretions which were impossible to remove.

The only photos that I have now from my girl's first three years of life are two framed 8x10s which still sit up on the piano in the house I grew up in (back in Ohio). Pics that I didn't shoot.

So, I do know how upset you must be feeling, but please hold out hope...your pictures are still in that stupid thing.
You only need to find a reasonable way to recover them.

Here's a thought. As a last resort, you could always make yourself seem a potential threat to our government.

The FBI would have those photos in hand in a New York minute.