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<font size="+1"><font face="Liberation Sans">Hi All<br>
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Why not try and buy another identical drive (even second hand and then
first of all exchanging some of the external components to see if that
solves the problem long enough to recover the data.<br>
<br>
If that fails buy a few more (I'm talking used ebay here) and
experiment with changing the platters over in your own dust free
operating theatre which you can create at home with sheets of plastic
etc.<br>
<br>
When you are comfortable you can do the operation, do it on the damaged
disk. <br>
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It looks like my old harddrive may finally have died. The PC wouldn't boot
and the drive is making some strange noises.
Luckily I do have a backup from a couple of months ago and there's not much
in the way of essential data on it, but I'd like to recover some files if I
can.
I've booted up the PC with an Ubuntu CD, but I'm not sure on the best way to
proceed from there. I know Malc had something similar a while back. Any
tips?
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