Re: OT: Wanted: Dead WD600 Hard Drive

[greg <frog@intertek.net>]

I had a friend who had a  similar problem, but a windows box, and I 
installed it as a second drive on a Linux box and could copy files from it.

William Underwood wrote:

>All,
>  I am looking for a dead Western Digital WD600 60GB hard drive, sub model is
>WD600A-22BTA0.  I have a customer whose drive does not get recognized
>anymore, but it spins up just fine.  They don't want to pay for data
>recovery, but do want the data back (sentimental value, digital-only pics of
>dead parents).  So, if any of you have one that doesn't spin up, has lots of
>bad sectors or whatever but is recognized by the controller and is not under
>warranty, please let me know.
>
>  Oh, and yes, I have recommended that they buy a CD/DVD-RW.  They have
>agreed that it is a good suggestion and are going to do it.  True, the barn
>is already empty......
>
>Thank you,
>William
>
>  
>



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