I've taken the electronics off a few IDE hdd's and swapped them. I put a
board from one drive on another which was the same model, but a different
revision.. It didn't work, but it didnt screw anything up either..

- Mike

"Art Todesco" wrote in message
news:yvW9d.211414$MQ5.199142@attbi_s52...
I've done it successfully on older drives ... now I'm giving away my
age, the drives were 10Meg (that's Meg, not Gig) full height. Back then
I didn't know what to do with all that storage space! I guess the
software designers took care of that.


Norm Dresner wrote:
I have two "identical" 1.2GB Western Digital HDs and one has just died.
I've talked to one professional data recovery company and they quoted me
$1100-$1500 for the 1.2GB MS-DOS HD -- I think my data was valuable --
but I
also think that I've got most of the source code stored on it
distributed
around a half-dozen other computers around here and at work so I'm going
to
pass on that route.

I could possibly do a board transplant to see if the drive died because
of
the electronics or not and if it did, I could recover the data.

I'm an aerospace engineer with EE & CS degrees with 30+ years experience
so
electronics and repairing equipment is no real scary prospect, but I've
never done this kind of work before and I was looking for some guidance
as
to whether it's
a) unscrew + unplug, then reverse the procedure
b) (a) + some minor unsoldering
c) You'd better have your own factory and clean room

TIA
Norm



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