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Reviving A Dead Hard Drive The Hard Way

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the path-of-most-resistance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This guy went to the trouble of swapping logic boards on a dead hard drive to get his NeverWinter Nights save games back and took photos." I would have just used a character editor to get my stuff back, but clearly, I lack the dedication this gentleman has. Regardless of reason, nice work!

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  1. Improvements to you or to the company? by 3770 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An improvement can be designed to make the product better.

    It can also be designed to make the product cheaper to produce, even if there is some kind of trade off.

    At the end of the day, some executive is going to look at a suggested change and think: "will this help us make more money?"

    So the latest version is always the best for the company, but is it the best for you? You can't be sure of that.

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  2. deadharddrive.com by chrispl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't belive this guy spent money registering "deadharddrive.com" for one page on how he got his saved games back.

    I would have thought that name would have been snapped up by a data recovery service years ago!

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