Re: How hard is it to swap HD electronics boards
From: Mike Kennedy (mikek400_at_R3MOVE.earthlink.net)
Date: 10/10/04
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:30:29 GMT
I've taken the electronics off a few IDE hdd's and swapped them. I put a
board from one drive on another which was the same model, but a different
revision.. It didn't work, but it didnt screw anything up either..
- Mike
"Art Todesco" <actodesco@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I've done it successfully on older drives ... now I'm giving away my
> age, the drives were 10Meg (that's Meg, not Gig) full height. Back then
> I didn't know what to do with all that storage space! I guess the
> software designers took care of that.
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > TIA
> > Norm
> >
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