Hi Charles - my husband's background is in IT, but more about the mathematics behind the scenes. Yesterday a man told me it would cost $450 plus $150 to get the data from it. I declined that. Left it with another nice man today who talked about drying it out. Who knows? I'm so angry with myself...and lost without it. What a pathetic soul I am! It will be a costly cuppa whichever way I look. Thanks Charles.