Re: How hard is it to swap HD electronics boards

From: James Sweet (jamessweet_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:54:02 GMT

"Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net> wrote in message
news:XOU9d.681032$Gx4.534103@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> 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
>

Your mileage may vary, I've had success swapping the boards on 1gig Conner
drives years ago, in this case swap the board and try, worst case it'll just
not work.

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