[KLUG Members] Any way to read this disk?

[Jamie McCarthy]

I have a laptop HD that has died and I'm trying to mount it on a
desktop machine.  I've got the 2.5"-to-3.5" adapter and when I hook
it up and boot, I see this in dmesg:

    hdc: , ATA DISK drive
    hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
    hdc: 0 sectors (0 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=0/255/63
    hdc: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
    hdc: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
    
    [later...]
    
    hdc : bad access: block=0, count=8
    end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
    hdc : bad access: block=2, count=6
    end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 2
    hdc : bad access: block=4, count=4
    end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 4
    hdc : bad access: block=6, count=2
    end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 6
    [etc.]

I can see some info about the drive in /proc/ide/hdc, notably its
model number in the 'identify' file.  But any attempt to look at it
gets:

    # fdisk /dev/hdc
    Unable to open /dev/hdc

Trying to cat /dev/hdc gets me I/O errors, etc.

It seems like the drive is real close to working, when the machine
powers up I hear it spin up and hear its arm seeking.  Anyone have
any idea of anything else I could try, to read this disk? I'd be
ecstatic if I could cat the whole /dev/hdc file to my real drive,
and work from there.
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  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  jamie@mccarthy.vg