Recovering zapped hard drives

[teddy mills]

I would recommend finding another bad drive of that same model.
If you are able to cleanly remove the platters and or assembly, I would 
say it would be worth it to then get a working drive of that model and 
do it again.
Put the recovery platters into the working drive unit.
Dont worry about clean air. The drives will work just fine without a 
cover on them. (days?/weeks?)
Long enough to get the data. The only tricky part is having the right 
tools to get those platters out.

/teddy


James Knott wrote:
> 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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