PCB Swap

[snyper238]

Well i fried a harddrive the other day and just got another one today and swapped out the PCBs. It was a success, i am sure more have done this but i just thought i would share....i have a video if anyone is interested

i will probably edit this post and put it on here later

free lowell (http://freelowell.com/videos/hdd.html)

[Ockie]

Yeah as long as its the same model there is no problems swapping out the PCB... great way to recover data on a bad drive.

[DougLite]

...presuming the drive hasn't sustained a head crash or other similarly catastrophic mechanical problem.

[_Korruption_]

...presuming the drive hasn't sustained a head crash or other similarly catastrophic mechanical problem.
Ditto.

Buddy of mine did it with his 7200.7, worked great.

[IanG]

I heard it's not that reliable a strategy - the new pcb might have a different firmware with different head allignment data (or something.) PCBs from the same batch of drives should be ok, but I wouldn't put a board from a brand new drive on a 3-yr-old drive with the same model number.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/474.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=474&tm=33)

[snyper238]

well i checked the firmware and it is the same....but yea it was pretty sweet to get my data back