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	|  Topic: Found a Vaio in the woods buried under a rock! | 
  
	| rbudrick 
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 |  Forum: Hard drives wanted   Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:54 am   Subject: Found a Vaio in the woods buried under a rock! | 
  
	| So I'm clearing an area of my yard (lived here 8 years), cutting down trees, getting rid of piles of brush, large rocks,  prickly bushes, etc., when I get to a corner of my yard I've never really been ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| rbudrick 
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 |  Forum: Hard drives wanted   Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 2:48 am   Subject: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| Yes, Eric sells quality product and was amazingly helpful.  I had a little trouble with the board at first, but that was my fault.   I never doubted you, Eric! I was sure the whole time it was me that ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| rbudrick 
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 |  Forum: Hard drives wanted   Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 6:11 am   Subject: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| Success! 
 I swapped the donor board's bios chip back to the donor board just to see if the disk would spin.  It did.  I put my bios chip back on the donor board, and it spun too and was recognized.  ...
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	|  Topic: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| rbudrick 
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 |  Forum: Hard drives wanted   Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 4:43 am   Subject: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| Hi Folks, 
 I swapped the bios tonight with a donor board, and I'm afraid the drive is still not recognized.  As far as I could tell, the desoldering and resoldering of the bios chip went perfectly,  ...
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	|  Topic: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| rbudrick 
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 |  Forum: Hard drives wanted   Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:07 am   Subject: Re: Hitachi PCB swap | 
  
	| 100% sure you have to either swap NVRAM chip or read it directly and rewrite the donor PCB. 
 Safest method would be to read/write it.   If you have good soldering equipment and practice, then no pro ...
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	|  Topic: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| rbudrick 
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 |  Forum: Hard drives wanted   Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 6:23 am   Subject: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| Hello, 
 My wife and I haven't yet decided what to do with this drive yet, but just for  curiosity's sake, since I finally got the correct size screwdriver bit to see the component side of this PCB ( ...
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	|  Topic: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| rbudrick 
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 |  Forum: Hard drives wanted   Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:11 am   Subject: Hitachi HDD, #13G1583-Other part #s and pics inside | 
  
	| Hello, 
 I have a Hitachi HDD, #13G1583, MLC# DL1175, serial XGGLNE1M, board part number 0A26798 Da1188A Xzz609 54VZ.  Pics at bottom.
 
 Basically, I removed this from a notebook in order to do a ba ...
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