[SWLUG] ot: hard disk recovery

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my brothers hard drive has failed badly, it spins but refuses to give up any 
information returning read errors upon every access, listening to my brothers 
story i believe that something electronic has burnt out and that the only 
hope for recovery is one of those expensive labs that swap out boards from 
working drives and even sometimes remove platters in clean rooms, bro's data 
isn't worth that much (he marries next week and the drive has his 'wedding 
plans' on it, not sure what that says!), but i was wondering, there being 
quite a geek collection on this list, if there was someone who did have some 
equipment that might help - all i have is standard pc stuff to plug the drive 
into i.e. a mobo :) or someone training/dabbling in forensic stuff who wanted 
to practice on a drive that has been given up for dead, then maybe something 
could be worked out? feel free to email direct.

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