I would suggest anyone with photos on hard drives/ pc's to copy the files onto an external drive. Paying someone upwards of $200 to try and recover those photos if the pc crashes is simply misdirected funds. Downloading pics from phones and cameras is fairly easy, and old photos scanned using my HP printer is also very easy-I can edit, put them in seperate files for family and then transfer the file to a flash drive and my external hard drive for later use. Once all the work of scanning etc is done, Using the external drive saves a lot of unnecessary worry that the pictures may be lost for good.