[Pc_Support] Help Request: HDD parts to revive dead drive

[Derek Konigsberg]

> But, one caveat on the bit set, is that they insert into a driver and that
> is sometimes too large in diameter to reach through the heatsinks, to use
> on computer processors.  In those instances, the Wiha Torx driver is great.
I'm still amazed at how we got into this whole long discussion of torx 
screwdrivers, and no one actually bothered to mention that 
circuit-board-swapping may actually not work.  The two drives may not be 100% 
identical.  Even if they are, the electronics are bound to have some unique 
information on bad sectors, sector-remapping, and the like.  In other words, 
the logical-to-physical mappings of the two drives may not be identical in 
any case.

Oh, and I know there are places that specialize in recovering data from dead 
hard drives.  These places are even qualified to open and fix the hard drives 
in a clean environment.  I just don't know of any such places around here.  
(One of these places was located near where I used to live, back in high 
school.)


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Derek Konigsberg
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