Troth, Thank you. I do have a small dead hard drive- local techs wanted $2,000 to restore it. The hard drive contains genealogy photographs no longer in existence, so I would like to retrieve them. I will try this guys method. Robert At 09:09 AM 8/19/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Here's a very interesting story of how one guy got his dead hard drive to >work again. I saw the link to this in one of the Lockergnome newsletters, >read it and was amazed that the guy was successful. >I'm posting this cause its just another tool at your hands when you have a >hard drive that's not functioning and you need to retrieve the data. To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk