Ok, so long story short I was in a car accident and my 250 gig WD drive was on the passenger floor, took a significant shock and now it makes bad bearing noise as it starts up and powers down as the bearing driver chip gets really hot.
Now I popped open the drive, there aren't any scratches on the platters themselves (I'm assuming the head was towards the front during the accident). As I *stupidly* don't have a couple backups of some important things, I'm wondering if I can swap the platters over to an identical drive and have it work, or will the alignment between the three platters make this impossible? Has anyone tried this before?
Now I popped open the drive, there aren't any scratches on the platters themselves (I'm assuming the head was towards the front during the accident). As I *stupidly* don't have a couple backups of some important things, I'm wondering if I can swap the platters over to an identical drive and have it work, or will the alignment between the three platters make this impossible? Has anyone tried this before?