Repairing a Hard Drive -- Flood Damage

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newgene

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Is it possible to swap out the hard drive components to a working hard drive to recover the data. Someone sent me this link:

http://laptops.hackaday.com/entry/1234000840067578/


I really want to get the information of the disk, but I was curious if anyone thinks this will work. I just found the computer, but it was under a few feet of water during Hurricane Katrina. Anyone have any advice.

Thanks
 
I dont think its possible, since the distance between the disc and the head are extrememly close, the fact is that a fingerprint, grain of dust, or a piece of hair is many time larger than that distance.

If there is really important data on there, you can send it to a recovery lab and they'll recover it for you.
 
I appreciate the input. I was planning to hunt down the exact same model hard drive and swap out the data. Oh well, I may have to fork over the cash.
 
Those services can cost alot of money, depending on how much data you want back and how hard it is for them to recover, your looking at several hundred dollars to a few thousand.
 
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Those services can cost alot of money, depending on how much data you want back and how hard it is for them to recover, your looking at several hundred dollars to a few thousand.
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man thats alot of money. for just gettting some data off of a harddrive.
 
Yeah, that would be a ton. I contacted just a couple of them, and they said they will quote it for free. However, I'm guessing it's going to be a few thousand to recover it. In that case, it is probably not that important. If I finally decide not to do anything, I'll definitely hang onto it. Rather than let it sit doing nothing, I would probably eventually take it apart. Either way, the worst case is no data.
 
give it a try, if you nothing t o lose.. i gave up my hd T_T, if i handed it in to the lab, it wouldve cost 700+ i was like o_O wow!!
 
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