Ancient_Hacker wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Ancient_Hacker wrote:
Michael Kennedy wrote:
Anybody know where I can find a 60gb Hitachi Travelstar model
IC25N060ATMR04-0 hard drive so that I can replace the heads in one that was
dropped while running?

Dust issues aside, how do you know the heads are the problem? If the
heads have crashed, the disk surface is likely to be scarred up too.

Only in a small place I'd expect.

Usually a whole head-width of tracks get scraped up. 40 to 80 tracks.

and as soon as the new heads go over the bad spot you're likely to have
a second set of bad heads.

You may of course be right but since it's just for interest value why not give it ago
?

Graham