For the condition you describe - you would have to send it back to a service that would actually remove the platters and install them in another drive casing. The cost for that would be steep and probably a month turn around.
"-----Original Message----- "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- "[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden "Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:26 PM "To: hwg "Subject: [H] Hard Drive Failure " " I came home after I was away for a few days to find a SATA HD in one "of my PCs not responding. On reboot the BIOS hangs trying to find the "drives and then eventually gives up and doesn't detect it. " "When I got the case open I knew it was bad. It makes a clicking sound "repeating every couple seconds and with my hands on the case I can "feel something inside hitting the casing. And when it powers down it "has that weird gyroscope effect where the spinning part causes angular "momentum. " "I am pretty sure I am screwed with this and it is dead. But since I "had 150GB of video and audio data on it I would like to make sure. "Would the symptoms I describe generally be attributed to a serious "mechanical failure that is not recoverable? "-- "Brian
