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I can see which part is duff. The tip of the swing arm on one of the platters (check me out, getting the lingo lol) - the bit that makes contact - has come off / hanging off. All i really need i guess is maybe another arm. AS for a waste of a hard drive, its only about £20 for a 2nd hand drive...

OK no worries. You're right, i have nothing to loose...hence the question. I will get a cheapy off eBay and let you know how i get on. Once i have retrieved data i will be binning it and getting a new laptop anyway. Cheers guys

Well its already been opened. Its only something i'm doing at home, if it were a customer then yes, i would have used our DR company. All i would like confirmation on really is (in theory) would taking my disks out and placing them in another HD of the same make and model and capacity etc etc...

Hi, Recently my Hitachi Deskstar 120GB IDE internal HD went TU. I want to retrieve the data in the most cost effective way. The fault lies with the internal arm that skates across the disks. My question is this - Can i buy another Hitachi Deskstar 120GB disk and swap the internals over to...