Russell McMahon wrote:
> Wanted: Electronics board from a Samsung SP0802N "Spinrite" 80 GB hard
> drive.
> About 2004 vintage.
>
> I have friends who, despite my repeated warnings that all hard drives 
> always
> fail *, have had a HDD failure & inadequate backups. How inadequate is yet
> to be seen.
>
> The PC power supply failed in some walking wounded manner and produced
> substantial voltage fluctuations which damaged a number of components in 
> the
> system, including the hard drive. There is some prospect that the 
> controller
> board was damaged but that the HDD proper is still OK - I've recovered a
> drive before now by simply swapping controller cards (although this has
> failed for me in more cases than it has worked in).

I wanted to mention that if replacing the controller board fails, you should 
try swapping the platters. Professional data recovery services do this in a 
cleanroom environment, but in an emergency it is possible to perform this 
type of surgery in one's home as well.

Searching for "Samsung SP0802N" on Google Shopping brings up a ton of 
results, from $49.

Wish you success in your endeavor,

Vitaliy

PS What kind of backup system do you yourself employ? 

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