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Xiaou2:
 
 You are better off keeping the drive closed until a day when you can afford a recovery specialist.
 
 The drive heads are small as a human hair, and once they hit the surface of the drive, it
destroys them, and even sometimes scratches the surface of the discs.

 I believe Ive heard of some people transplanting part from one drive to another drive of the
same model... however, if Any dust gets on a surface, you will just have ruined another drive.
As said, a single spec of dust can ruin an HD head.

ark_ader:
When do you open a drive casing to replace the main-board?

There is a plastic trace connecting the main board to the drive assembly.   ::)

RTSDaddy2:
Protokatie and others:

You didn't hurt any feelings by reminding me to do backups.  The really stupid, sorry thing we did was when we bought the external drive, we bought it to " make room" by moving files to the EHD from our desktop....but the issue is, if we'd have only copied the pictures of our kid - instead of doing a move - we'd still have them.  Had that happened, this wouldn't even be an issue; I'd just chunk that drive and start over.

One thing you cured me of is thinking of opening the hard drive itself.  I had read online that sometimes if you open up the drive itself I could reposition the arm, but that sounds like a really, really bad idea.

saint:
So here's a thought - have you tried undeleting on the machine's internal hard drive to see if you can recover any of the files you moved?

Comtek:
i do not recomend what i done but it worked
had a internal hard drive in and external enclosure fall
all i got after that was a clicking
knew i wasn't supposed to but opened it up anyway the data on it was something i could collect again
i opened it up and turned it on and seen that the platters were not spinning i twisted them heard a crunch they started to spin after that
with a noticable scraping a vibrating noise but windows recognized it and it showed up in explorer
i started with the most important data first but there was a portion on the drive i could not access and when i tried it froze explorer up
tried it several times and could not get at that part it was about 2gb out of 200gb
 AGAIN I DO NOT RECOMEND THIS
just thought i would share it

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