Re: hard drive crash.. anyone do repairs?

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

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> this is an IDE drive, I don't have the model number handy,
> but a "large" (7X7 mm approx) transistor looking device
> burnt, and I had tons of 6502 code on it (for the light gun
> video game)....
>
>  anyone work on repairing drives, or extracting data from
> the platters?
>
>  Any readers know someone who does this?  I looked into it
> and it costs $$$$ to get data off bad drives.

Not as much as you might think. A company called Gillware specializes in 
data recovery for consumers and I find their rates to be quite reasonable. 
They offer an upfront no-cost evaluation and seem to do great work. Check 
them out at www.gillware.com

-Greg
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> Rich
>