I once had a computer crash and hired some "expert" to retrieve my data. He worked for a couple of hours and gave up. I then went online (on another computer, of course) and found a unix program you could boot from, and it allowed me to retrieve most of what I had lost. The "expert" didn't charge me for his time and I let him know about the unix program :)
Linux bootable USB stick is the shit in this regard. You can go in with a nice little GUI desktop and suite of tools and get that shit done in comfort. Linux mint is a good distro. The expert does seem dubious, he should turn up with bootable media.
I once had a computer crash and hired some "expert" to retrieve my data. He worked for a couple of hours and gave up. I then went online (on another computer, of course) and found a unix program you could boot from, and it allowed me to retrieve most of what I had lost. The "expert" didn't charge me for his time and I let him know about the unix program :)
Linux bootable USB stick is the shit in this regard. You can go in with a nice little GUI desktop and suite of tools and get that shit done in comfort. Linux mint is a good distro. The expert does seem dubious, he should turn up with bootable media.