G'day Folks,

I have just had a 2 G hard drive crash. :(   Pulled it apart and found one
of the heads has well and truly crashed into the outer cylinders of one of
the disks.

I really would like the data back but cant afford the $ for the proper
people to have a go.  I am going to buy an identical drive and attempt a
platter change.

I heard some time ago that hard drives keep a table of good and bad sectors
so thought that my plan may fail due to this and perhaps for many other
reasons.

Anyone had a go at doing this sort of thing.

And yes, I do back up and as it turns out this is my backup disk but it
crashed while doing a reformat reload windows thing on my other drive and
did not get the chance to copy the important stuff back.

Would dearly love to get at all my old data.

Any help, experience would be warmly received :)

Justin

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