You can look around for a disaster recovery place. They charge and assload, but you could flush the drive in the toilet, throw it in Mt. St. Helens, use the thing as a turn table as you have vanilla ice freestyling in your living room, and hurl insults at the drive for hours and make it feel like it will never ammount anything, and they could still recover a ton of the data off the thing. I wanna say it is like 110 bucks a gigabyte, going rate.

edit: Here is a link to look at.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.c...1254612&page=1

Sorry, kinda reaching for loose ends but what other chance ya got

Bipper