Recovering zapped hard drives

[Alex Beamish]

Hello TLUG,

I was talking with a friend this weekend -- he has two PCs that were
zapped by lightning recently, and this has apparently fried the hard
drives. Apparently the drives don't even spin up any more.

He has had a few people try to get data from these drives, without
success. Before laying five large on a data recovery service, he's
going to try one more thing, which is to order identical drives and
swap the hard drive PCBs. Has anyone tried this procedure? Are there
any reports of successes?

Thanks.

-- 
Alex Beamish
Toronto, Ontario
aka talexb
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