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If a thief attempts to take your property at gunpoint, You have every right to defend yourself from it.
I for one don't want government to be able to regulate / control / trace transactions.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. - anon
Swapping the control boards works on some makes (wd), make certain it is exactly the same model and revision. exactly. "close enough" never worked for me, not even once.
By far just a slight "spin" by hand along the axis of travel of the disk, a quick gentile flicking motion, works to unfreeze the spindles of most stuck drives.
Some drives responded to a gentle heating of the spindle bearing with the hot air.
Use dd_rescue.
"Spinrite" is complete horse-shit, don't listen to anyone saying otherwise.
Most drives people brought in were just corruptions, photorec and it's associated programs (testdisk) are also invaluable..