I have experience with this sort of thing, I am willing to mess with it if she wants but I always tell everyone to use me as your last ditch effort. I allways tell them that when I am done you won't be able to take it to those expensive places, so if you are just planning on chucking it then let me have a go. I am not a fan of the freezer method but it does work on occasion due to the hardening of greese. There are a few things I do, first I see if it spinns up, at all, if it does then I listen to the head for clicking. Some times a light tap can align the head and allow it to function. Another reason for nonworking drives that still spin can be due to warping of metal components, I will loosen a few screws on the cover and that sometimes will releave the tension, enough to get data off of it. There are other tricks also. I know I am not very active with the group, and it isn't like I have any profesional training on hard drives, so if you/or your friend don't want me to have a crack at it and rather ship it back to the manufacturer for an RMA I would be just fine.
-Lance On 7/30/09, Garth Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a friend who frizzled her hard drive. I don't know the extent, > but she took it to geek squad or best buy and they told her $1600 to get > the data back. Does anyone know of a cheaper or free as in pizza way of > doing this? > > Just curious. > > - Garth > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- Sent from my mobile device Thanks, Lance Grover /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
