recovering hard drives information

[motrucker]

If all else fails, and you DO have a twin hard drive, swap the darned disk itself! I've done this several times. It's not like you going to run the thing more than once to back it up. Just make sure your work space is as clean as possible, and dust free! Be VERY careful doing the work, and it will work.
I can already see hackles raising, but this really does work with being clean and careful.

[motrucker]

Hyperspeed wrote:
....Now consider the fact that each square millimetre on a hard disk platter could be responsible for 10MB of data, moreso if you consider the way data is laid out in clusters etc. then you are taking a serious risk by opening up the disk. One speck of 0.3micron dust potentially cause a bad block or something!
:-) :-) :-)

I did not offer this idea as a fix, but a way to reteive the info on the drive. It really does work. BTW, I live with two young kids and dog who sheds canstantly.
How do you think the pros do this? same way (granted they usae a clean room).
This IS a last resort! but it works nore often than not.