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Have you successfully recovered a dead hard drive?

 
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Have you successfully recovered a dead hard drive?
Yes - replaced the logic board
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Yes - swapped the platters!
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Yes - by some other means
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No - tried it but failed :-(
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No - don't have a dead hard drive thank goodness!
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No - too scared to try
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No - but I'm going to try!
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No way - you're all crazy!
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nev
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Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 2:42 am    Post subject: Have you successfully recovered a dead hard drive? Reply with quote

And how did you do it?
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airwrecktion
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Joined: 16 Sep 2005
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Location: silverdale, Wa

PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

swapped logic boards with another hdd with the same mdl number and NEAR the same date. Off by a few months..
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Subzuki
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Joined: 30 Oct 2005
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada EH?

PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:30 am    Post subject: Success!.....and failures Reply with quote

I never kept a record of my efforts, but a rough guess would be about 5 successes to 15 failures.

I have only ever swapped boards as a method of recovery. I did attempt to carefully take a dead hard drive apart for possible platter transplant once, but I gave up on the reassembly. The read/write heads are a real bugger when you try to get the platters back in. And they are also extremely fragile! Unless it is absolutely priceless data, going to this extreme is barely worth it. Or if you can come up with a better method for getting the platters back in between the heads, my hat is off to you.


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marceljack
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Joined: 16 May 2006
Posts: 12
Location: Paris, France

PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you successfully recovered a dead hard drive? Reply with quote

nev wrote:
And how did you do it?
Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 (motor control IC burnt) : I swapped board from another disk of the same series with same hardware but different firmware. So I had also to remove the small flash from the damaged board to replace the flash of replacement board (advice of Ranikolahdd).
And everything was OK.
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keylow
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Joined: 11 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:14 am    Post subject: Recovered Reply with quote

I brought back a quantum 1.7 G and 2.1 G.

Everything came off of them great except for one file. At the time, a hard drive "specialist" helped me by taking the thing apart (platters and all!) and leaving it that way for a few months. When I found a matching drive, we closed it back up and screwed on the board.

I also recovered a 3.5 G WD this way. (not by taking it all apart, of course!)

I just lost a 82 Gb IBM deskstar that was going out. So I tried swapping a card off of a 41 G of the same series and shape. Didn't work. But, I tried hooking the old card and drive up. It didn't detect in the bios, but when I detected new hardware, windows found it. It took about 9 hrs to pull the data off in windows. It was running reallly slow.

I also have a dead WD400BB-00dea0. I am not sure I can pull this one or not. I have been hearing how tricky west. dig. have become and I don't know if there is any firmware that has anything to do with it. I see that I can get a card for $40 on eBay, but still not sure if there is something I don't know about this one.

Any input would be appriciated.
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