no. that drive's dead.

but i'm going to have to let it sit until april, anyways. maybe somebody at a data recovery shop will be able to get what i want out of it.

or maybe that's long enough to let it think it's back at the factory. that's ultimately what i think happened to the magically reworking laptop.

until then, i'm going to have to just keep going. i have one more trick to try - maybe it'll read through an external sata in. if not, i'm going to wait until i see if i can recover the data before i start downloading gigs of wave files from bandcamp.