Funkiest suggestion yet, from
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-623...sageID=1774555

Connect the drive up to a desktop as a secondary drive, leave it lay
outside the machine so that you can get to it and carefully open the
drive, boot the desktop on the primary drive once the machine gets
started and the old drive is not spinning gently give it a spin to help
it get started, if this process works BACK UP YOUR INFO!!! and trash
the drive.