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barry - // That's a shame, Andy - but you have learned a valuable lesson. If anything else goes wrong go straight to the retailer to get it sorted especially within the first six months. You were entitled to a full refund, repair or replacement. //
Lesson well and truly learned.
I was in a 'Catch 22' situation though, I needed the data recovered which would have incurred PC World's £90, and then they would have destroyed the drive.
Or, have my refund, and lose the data anyway, so with hindsight, it was worth the hit on the cost to hopefully get my data back, sadly that is not happening.
Never mind - not the end of the world.