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Old 02-August-06, 11:09 PM   #1 (permalink)
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My HD died and I don't have the cash to send it to a professional clean room. If anyone out there knows of someone that may be able to do this on the side please let me know. Even if I lose the data, I'm in the same position I am now. I may try and buy the same exact HD and swap out the disks. Nothing to lose.

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Old 03-August-06, 01:07 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Although I've never tryed it myself , I have heard of swapping disks in yer own homeade clean room just some plastic sheeting and a box , duct tape some rubber gloves into the plastic. Also , I have heard of disks working after being opened / swapped without use of a clean room.

Question tho , are you sure the drive is dead ?? have you tryed hooking it up as a slave storage drive ?? or is it dead as in no power.
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Old 03-August-06, 10:32 AM   #3 (permalink)
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No power. the motor is gone.
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Old 14-August-06, 06:39 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Im having some thing like that as well im a hardcore noob but i hap a hp computer and tryed to switch over evry thing onto a different mobo and when i activated wndows my pc just rebooted and now it says no hard drive can be found

(sorry for kinda changin the subject i dont even know how to create a forum :S)
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Old 14-August-06, 06:42 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Im having some thing like that as well im a hardcore noob but i hap a hp computer and tryed to switch over evry thing onto a different mobo and when i activated wndows my pc just rebooted and now it says no hard drive can be found

(sorry for kinda changin the subject i dont even know how to create a forum :S)

Click on the topic where you want the thread to go, then click "New Thread" It looks like this:
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Old 14-August-06, 06:43 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Try wrapping the drive in a plastic bag with as little air in it as possible. Then, stick it in the freezer overnight. In the morning, take it out and let it thaw. Put it back in your computer and see if it helps!

This link might help you.
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