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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I've never tried it myself (at least not with the intention of having a working drive again), but I've heard of other people having varying degrees of success with removing the platters and putting them in another enclosure. I think this would be an absolute last ditch effort for me though. The problem I see with trying that is that the read/write heads are so close to the platters, there's practically no room for error. Removing them from the old enclosure shouldn't be too bad, but reassembling them in another one without disturbing the read/write heads seems like an awful big challenge. Like Skaarjj said, if it's critical info, you'd probably be better off sending it to a data recovery place (where I work, we send stuff to [url=http://www.ontrack.com/]Ontrack[/url], and they seem to do a good job, but they aren't cheap, the last drive I had to had recovered ran up around $2000). Good luck with it, whichever way you go. -- Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. Loading...
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