[Gllug] Hard drive recovery

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:21:22PM +0100, tet at accucard.com wrote:
 > Hmmm... they were looking really good until I asked about prices. It's data
 > that I'd like to get back, but I don't value it enough to want to pay the
 > four figure price tag they want to recover it for me...

Yep, these people don't come cheap.

 > Anyone know of any cheaper options? :-)

Your original plan of trying to find another drive with the same
electronics and transplant the platters sounds like the cheapest
alternative.
This should be perfectly feasable, I know one guy who managed to pull
it off with (I think) two western digital drives that went boom.

    Dave.

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