Recovering zapped hard drives

[James Knott]

James Knott wrote:
> 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.
>
>
One more thought on this, he might want to see if his insurance will 
cover data recovery.


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