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Old 25th June 2004 | 07:37
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Agent86
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Tried that once for a mate with no success

Seems you have to have

Same make (obvious)
Same size
Same Version (that was the hard bit)

and a small Torx driver (also good for pulling mobile phones apart after inadvertant dunking )

Got to the stage where HD was recognised and platters spun up but no go.

Next stage was to physically transfer the platters but I chickened out about then

It is always worth a try if you need the data

If you REALLY need the data there are commercial companies that do recover data but it aint cheap !

Max
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