hard drive recovery?

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know of a place in the area that can do hard drive recovery, other than Microcenter or Best Buy (which I'm already looking into)? I've been doing some looking online, but my hard drive is clicking, and a lot of places seem to say they won't deal with that.

Alternatively, does anyone in the area have an Archos Gmini MP3 player, and could lend me the charger for a bit? I used mine as my backup hard drive, but I lost the charger and the battery is presently dead.

Edit: Thank you all for advice and suggestions. I've found a charger for the Archos, and I'm going to try a couple more at-home efforts with the hard drive, involving different boards, the assistance of a kind LJ neighbor, and possibly this fun-sounding freezing option, and chalk it up to a loss if they don't work. Who knew clean rooms were so expensive? ;)

Comments

[ron_newman]

Tagged. Don't know if any of the previous entries are useful, but take a look. There is a computer repair place on the first floor of the Harvard Vanguard medical building on Holland Street, but I've never been inside.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

they are pretty reasonable and give good estimates.. I was unable to convince myself that my computer needed repairing rather than replacing so I am not sure how the service actually is though.