Damage Platters

[elgie]

I have this hdd Maxtor 9D432D3, and it has lines in the platters. Is there any way to bypass this lines? or maybe is there any special solution i can put or to remove this lines???

[dmarques]

Hi,

What do you mean by lines?
Can you take a picture?

[ACE_Admin]

As far as I can tell - it is all about scratches on the platter.
Unfoturnatly - it was impossible to recover the data from it. The drive was pretty old, and it has'n any methods of switching off its heads.