Seems like it could be a good candidate for the freezer trick... http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) < [email protected]> wrote: > A friend has an external Seagate 1TB drive that died on them and it has the > only copy of a lot of the photos they took. I took the USB enclosure apart > and connected the SATA drive up directly to a PC, but the motor does not spin > at all (you can hear the heads move some at power up). She took it to a > local shop where they said it would cost $300 to recover the data, but then > changed that to $1000 when they found out it was a “large” drive (1TB). > > > > Does anyone know of a good affordable place that will do this? Their > pictures are not worth $1000 at this point. > > > > Tom > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
