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

[Aaron Morrison]

On 8 Feb 2006 at 7:06, Derek Konigsberg wrote:

> 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.
> 

And I'm aware of that.  However, when a drive recovery place wants 
between $500 and $3000 to recover data, it's worth the time and 
effort to give it a try.