That's exactly what some data restore company do! That's very rare that they have to disassemble the drive and do it in the hard way, but that's what they put into the ad. Tamas On 02/09/06, peteHVAC wrote: > > Hello, I have done this for a friend. Bought the same hard drive > swapped boards and it was fine. It worked perfectly and he's > still using it. Of coarse if it's something inside that could get > more interesting. > > Pete > > -----Original Message----- > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf > Of John Remington > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 4:28 PM > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. > Subject: [OT] Western Digital Drive Failure > > > I recently lost a drive (7200 rpm 40gig Caviar) during a power brown-out / > power failure. I wasn't home at the time so I'm not sure about the > condition other than what I heard . . . people say the power dipped and > peaked a bunch of time before going out completely (lightining hit a main > transformer). > > I didn't have a UPS on the machine that lost the drive (thank God I had > one > on my server or I would be in tears). The drive has some stuff on it that > I > would really like to get off of it, but I believe the controller is > cooked. > > What do you folks think the chances are of waking this drive up by > purchasing the same model drive (off ebay maybe?) and swapping out the > controllers? Would there be more to it, like swapping some firmware > chips? > > TIA and best regards, John. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- unPIC -- The PIC Disassembler http://unpic.sourceforge.net -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist