[plug] Dead hdd

[Paul Arch]

>
> does anyone no how to recover from a dead hdd, where the motor does not
spin up...need some of the data back...
>

 Assuming you definately know its the hard disk (eg. tried in different
computer to make sure computer power supply was OK), I do know of people who
have got the same model of a hard disk (as the dead one), and swapped the
circuit boards over to recover the information off it.  But this of course
depends on how the hard disk died.  You may be lucky, and be able to do
this.  But of course you need to find pretty much the exact make/model of
the hard disk in question.

If you post some details on the HDD, maybe some others on the list could
offer something like this ?

cheers

Paul