Re: Hard drive repair (longish)
From: PlainBill (PlainBill47_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:19:42 -0700
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:51:37 GMT, Ken Weitzel <kweitzel@shaw.ca>
wrote:
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>PlainBill wrote:
>> Well, I really blew it this time. About a month ago I replaced my 120
>> gig hard drive with a new 200 Gig Maxtor, model # 6B200P. In
>> violation of my common sense, I did NOT keep the old drive as a
>> backup. Well, the new drive went belly up last week - it wouldn't
>> even spin up. Some of the stuff on the drive is easily replaceable,
>> but many of the pictures of my Granddaughter cannot be replaced.
>>
>> I requested an advance replacement from Maxtor, and when it arrived I
>> tried to repair the bad drive by swapping the electronics boards. I
>> verified these had identical part numbers. This had a limited sucess:
>> The new hda does not spin up with the old electronics board; the old
>> hda DOES spin up with the new board. However, the drive does not
>> properly report it's size. The new drive reports it is 203.9 Gig; the
>> new electronics board with the old hda reports it's size as 250 Gig,
>> then generates POST errors.
>>
>> At this point I can restore the electronics boards to the proper hdas
>> and return the old drive to satisfy the terms of the advance
>> replacement, since I have not altered anything. The last option I am
>> considering is a part which appears to be a SST Serial flash chip. It
>> should be possible to swap these between boards if I unsolder with
>> chip-quik, but I'm not looking forward to it.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with these drives, or any advice to
>> give?
>>
>> PlainBill
>
>Hi PlainBill...
>
>Just a shot in the dark with the first thought that comes
>to mind, if I may?
>
>Would it be worth the effort to try telling the old drive/new
>electronics combo how big it is? Instead of letting it tell
>bios?
>
>Good luck recovering the pics of your grand daughter's; know
>it would devastate me...
>
>Ken
Ken,
That would be the ideal solution - while I can solder, I'm a lot
better working with an IC with the pins on .1" centers than smt parts
- not that there's anything wrong with smt. Now if you would happen
to know of a source for the software used to program these drives...
PlainBill
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