When I was building my current system I made the mistake of letting two HDD drives get too close and they wound up magnetizing to each other. 
After I separated them, the other HDD was completely fine; however the old Maxtor didn't even spin up.
I bought an external IDE enclosure for the Maxtor and after powering the enclosure the drive still wouldn't spin. I bought a replacement PCB and swapped it and it still wouldn't spin. I read that my particular Rosewill enclosure wasn't reliable though; I might need to buy a different one and test it.
I also tried the "freezer trick". No luck.
Is there anything else I should try before I spend hundreds of dollars on a data recovery company?
Thanks in advance for your help/suggestions
After I separated them, the other HDD was completely fine; however the old Maxtor didn't even spin up.I bought an external IDE enclosure for the Maxtor and after powering the enclosure the drive still wouldn't spin. I bought a replacement PCB and swapped it and it still wouldn't spin. I read that my particular Rosewill enclosure wasn't reliable though; I might need to buy a different one and test it.
I also tried the "freezer trick". No luck.
Is there anything else I should try before I spend hundreds of dollars on a data recovery company?
Thanks in advance for your help/suggestions
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