[kiryandil]

The strongest reason to criticize using the blind tech is not that he is blind but that with twenty five years of experience he may not be expert with the newest recovery methods.

Excellent point.

Ultimately, the hard drive is just a squirrel to distract us from the servers and their back-up mediums. That they're obfuscating about the hard drive merely highlights their deceit about the servers.

[Rockingham]

Quite true about the servers and other backups. I trust Issa and his staff to eventually get to the bottom of things, to the extent that is possible.