Re: How hard is it to swap HD electronics boards
From: Vidar Løkken (njus_at_vidarlo.net)
Date: 10/09/04
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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:37:44 GMT
Norm Dresner wrote:
> I have two "identical" 1.2GB Western Digital HDs and one has just died.
> I've talked to one professional data recovery company and they quoted me
> $1100-$1500 for the 1.2GB MS-DOS HD -- I think my data was valuable -- but I
> also think that I've got most of the source code stored on it distributed
> around a half-dozen other computers around here and at work so I'm going to
> pass on that route.
If they are identical, (same model number), my guess is that it is A.
If they're not, you also _have_ to get a new firmware onto it, wich is
near impossible afaik. So...It is just to try.
>
> I could possibly do a board transplant to see if the drive died because of
> the electronics or not and if it did, I could recover the data.
>
> I'm an aerospace engineer with EE & CS degrees with 30+ years experience so
> electronics and repairing equipment is no real scary prospect, but I've
> never done this kind of work before and I was looking for some guidance as
> to whether it's
> a) unscrew + unplug, then reverse the procedure
> b) (a) + some minor unsoldering
> c) You'd better have your own factory and clean room
>
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