When I was in the Navy, whenever someone got an “attaboy” it actually had a semi-offical name: a Bravo Zulu, often indicated by the signal flags . Well, I have a Bravo Zulu for Ian Bardecki, regional manager of Data Recovery Group in Northbrook, Illinois. My son had a hard drive crash on Saturday night. He has a DJ gig on Thursday, a BIG Spring Break party with kids coming from about five colleges, and all his music was on his hard drive. Ian pushed though the hard drive and apparently they will recover about 26GB of the approximate 35GB that was on the drive, and get it done by Thursday so the eldest can do his thang. It's not cheap, but far less than what some competitors might have charged. The one company I was really dissapointed at in this process is a one calling themselves Midwest Data Recovery; all of their ads say they specialize in data recovery in the Chicago area, but their lab is in New York—it's sort of like the salsa commercial: “New York City”! If you need this kind of work done, go with Ian and Data Recovery Group.