Trying to find a compatible hard drive for a zen touch. Anyo

Hey guys.
I'm trying to save some dats from my hard dri've, and have managed to take the hard drive apart, so that I can take out the circular disc with the data on.
The dri've is a Hitachi travelstar with model code: HTC424040F9AT00, and it's a 40gb drive. Does it have to be this exact model in order for me to put the disc into a working version of this drive, to get the data off? Can it be any travelstar?
Either way, does anybody know where I could get one of these?
Any help would be much appreciated?

I think most computer guys would say you're SOL at this point, but as I said, continue and see what happens. When I was doing research on the old Dell 20 gig Jukebox I had here, you could install up to a 40 gig hard dri've into a 20 gig unit and the unit would recognize the additional storage, but the one Hitachi guy I talked to didn't know if the unit would recognize a 60 gig HD. So from that I gathered that you could put your disc into a 20 gig unit, and it should read it.
Do a search on 'computer clean room' though, and I think your info on that disc is already bad. HD manufacturers take great pains to create clean rooms so that disc don't get dust on them, but surprise us and prove them wrong..

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