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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

On 05/26/06 11:21 AM, "Michael Czeiszperger" <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
wrote:

> 
> On May 26, 2006, at 7:20 AM, Calvin Powers wrote:
> 
>> We took it to a recovery person who was unable to get anything off if it.
>> He said he thinks the arm is moving back and forth over the media disk, but
>> either can't or doesn't know where to engage the disk.
>> 
> 
> If the arm isn't moving there's no easy way to get the data that I know of. 
> I'm curious to see if a data recovery firm has a way to get around this... 
> perhaps they could remove the actual media section from the broken drive and
> place that in a working drive?  In any event it doesn't sound cheap...

I believe that is exactly what they do (though in a clean room). I believe
David Pouge wrote about the experience of using Drive Savers (?) in his NYT
column a few months ago.

David

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