Recovering zapped hard drives

[James Knott]

Alex Beamish wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Unless he has a lot of experience with computer repair, I'd strongly 
recommend against that.  He could easily make it impossible to recover 
the data.


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