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Well that was a drastic change of faith. You went from "no way could I ever give a trusted, well known company access to my files to restore privately and securely" to now handing everything over to a neighbor and stashing it in a glovebox. I like it :D

Sure, unless you have a fire, someone breaks into your place, or any other disaster happens at your place of residence and it doesn't matter if you had 2 or 10 copies - you've very likely lost them all. This is why I suggest any file that's important that you have 3 copes (the orginial, local...

Multiple backups for the win. On-site and Off-site, otherwise you're still at risk.

I've found some info on this error, but nothing that specifically mentions Windows 10. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/818954/error-1919-error-configuring-odbc-data-source-error-messages-when-you

@Rolex, I would start by removing any and all Office suites/programs. Then try to do a new install of Office 2000. Per the following link it seems, while not supported per say, that even as old as Office 95 will run on Windows 2010...

@Rolex - I'm not familiar with Works Suite 2005 and I would think Office/Word 2000 would work. I use Office 2013 on my Windows 10 machine and it works fine. Building off of @olds97_lss suggestion, there are plenty of free alternatives to Word. One being the one he's already mentioned along with...

Sure if you send it to some random Bob down the road who's cousin knows a thing about computers, yeah that might be a concern. Any reputable data recovery company is going to have strict controls and access on the data recovered. At any rate take a look at something like Backblaze (or similar)...

You might still be able to retrieve the data from the drives, you haven't re-formatted them have you?