On Tuesday 07 December 2004 21:35, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 09:05 am, Brad Bourn wrote:
Yes, the drive is dying. I have in the past been able to bring dead drives back to life for customers if I have a duplicate drive. Sometimes you can swap controller from one drive to another to at least be able to recover data to new drive.
But that costs more than a new drive. They want the drive back just to be sure you really had one and were entitled to a replacement.
Swack it with a big hammer, it makes no difference to them. There's no way they would use a used drive.
Pardon my ignorance if this isn't a correct thing that might help or it's already been discussed, but doesn't SpinRite from Steve Gibson's site do this kind of thing...fix a dying hdd enough to recover stuff? http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm