> Blow the controll board in some way and your sunk. Blow the mechanics and your sunk. Not to rain on your parade, but there are several data recovery and fore

> Blow the controll board in some way and your sunk. Blow the mechanics and your sunk. Not to rain on your parade, but there are several data recovery and forensics services that will pull the data off of such disks. If you have a clean room, you can even do it yourself: all you need is an identical model drive, and to just transfer the physical platters from the broken disk, to the good disk. Think of it like swapping the engine in a car instead of buying a new car. Of course, with the new Helium-filled hard drives coming out these days, that's going to be a lot tougher ...