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This will sound a bit off the wall but it has worked for me on two Deskstars that failed. Put the drive in a plastic bag and leave it in the freezer for several hours. Set up your machine to use the dead drive as a data drive. Fit the frozen drive, fire up and then immediately copy off as much as you can. This seems to be a one-shot performance, I didn't manage to repeat it on either drive once I had closed down the machine.
Sounds screwy and I don't believe it comes with any guarantees (!), but it did work for me.
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