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Hard Drive Transplant
bloody000:
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--- Quote from: bloody000 on September 30, 2009, 05:54:59 AM ---Well, since you have a bunch of them you can try doing it on your bad drives first(not the freshly blew up ones).
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I'm going to use the circuit boards from the damaged (bad sectors) drives to make the blown-up drives function long enough to get the data from them.
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I mean testing this procedure on your old bad drives first to see if it works. Drives full of bad sectors are still operational(relatively speaking).
oh and, the pad bcr123 mentioned is the thermal pad between the controller and the drive case, the case acts as a cooler for the chip.
fohfoh:
aww fuck. I think my dog broke the HDD in my external. (I built it myself)
I have to do some side tests... but afaik, nothing can be read off of it. Some vac photos and stuff on it that I kind of want back. (I basically "backed up" stuff to this HDD before I sent my laptop to get fixed. Laptop was wiped clean and then the "external broke")
The LED on my external case turns on normally, then flashes and nothing reads. Sometimes the HDD shows up, but no info comes off of it. Trying to read it crashes explorer.
Drew:
Any DIY project that involves cracking open an HDD and dealing with the platters is really risky. If you really cared about the contents, I'd take it to a professional data recovery company and have them do it for you. Granted, there's still risk involved, and it can be pretty spendy depending on where you take it, but it's a hell of a lot better than trying to DIY.
fohfoh:
Hmm... that's true. While the information isn't super important, it would be nice to have back. Maybe I'll wait for a little bit to see if a cheaper alternative with less risk shows up.
Lucerin Red:
If you just fried the logic board, that's all you have to replace, I actually am going through the same thing right now. I bought a shitty power adaptor from china and it fried the logic board, smoke and everything. But replacing the logic board is cake. it just simply unscrews and lifts off. nothing to plug in even. However, the difficult part is finding a matching logic board. You have to find not only the same Make and Model, but the same firmware and P/N. Unfortunately for me there are plenty of 3.03 firmware, but what I need is 3.06. And the ass Pirates out there jack up the price now that the model is discontinued. They want $150+ for a 250 GB drive. ass fuckers.
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