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

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 07:06, Derek Konigsberg wrote:
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> 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.

True, but it also may.  I sent someone my old, dead Maxtor 120GB which he 
found had his exact serial # on my Web site.  He later informed me that using 
its PCB he was able to successfully recover his data.  He had tried other 
PCBs, but as you said there had been compatibility issues.

So it's still worth a shot, even multiple times, if your data is really 
important, but you're on a budget or could never afford professional recovery 
services anyway.

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Jason Boxman
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