Brought a computer from my work in, asked them to ...

Brought a computer from my work in, asked them to save any data from the old failing drive. They told me it failed while they tried to image it and file to file transfer would freeze up their system. If I wanted too, I could pay $1000's to recover the data. I'm not computer illiterate, just didn't want to do work a favour on my free time. So I decided to install the drive as a secondary drive and was able to copy all the files over I wanted. Good thing I knew something about computers....