"117. Posted Feb 27, 2006, 11:38 AM ET by Dan"

"So, I removed the platter from one of my new drives and placed the platter from my broken drive inside. It took a couple of tries to get the platter lined up correctly (there was a lot of vibration) and the disk would POST. Remarkably, I recovered 100% of the data I was looking for and the rest of the directory structure was about 80% recoverable..."

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