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PCB Swap

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snyper238

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

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

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