I've never done it myself, but I've got a buudy that's done it few times on older drives. His latest attempt was on a SCSI drive. The jury is still out on that one, but the other drives he did it on worked. Atleast for his purpose, just to retrieve data. I don't know if continued to using the drives after retrieving the Data.
Good Luck.
Here's a link to some instruction.
http://www.wikihow.com/Swap-Hard-Disk-Drive-Platters