Got my replacement for my broken hard drive today from Seagate. Was a bit worried it was lost because I missed out the zip code (postcode in the UK). I called up their support line to check after I received a dispatch e-mail that was missing a tracking code. They reassured me that their technical department responsible for diagnosing the...

Turned on the PC today and it was stuck at the BIOS screen trying to detect the drives. Turns out my year old Maxtor DiamondMax 22 SATA hard drive might be dead - I hardly even use it and it was mainly for storage purposes. I had a whole bunch of unsorted photos that I took from events such as this year's bonfire night on it that I didn't back up so...