it would cost close to $1 million, and there were no guarantees. >> after everybody gave up, we were driving around the beltway after we picked up our diskettes from this one government agency who failed. my deputy said, give me a shot. i said what are you going to do? i'm going to try to scotch tape them back together. that's not going to work. >> his inspiration was the post-it note. the adhesive on the back is strong enough to hold items together, but it is easily removed, leaving no residue behind. first, technicians used heat to smooth out the rumpled pieces. unfortunately, not all of the pieces could be sufficiently repaired. so they needed to find a way to replace the damaged pieces to make a complete disk. >> so what we did is then take that original piece of evidence, put it onto that disk and cut out a template of where it would