20 Jan
2016
20 Jan
'16
3:06 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, Mark Linimon wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:35:22PM -0800, John
Robertson wrote:
It can work. But I remember reading that each PCB keeps track of bad
physical blocks; if you transplant the PCB from another drive, you might
end up with a different set of bad blocks beings saved.
I still haven't gotten rich enough to use his services, but I've talked
to this guy named Scott Moulton, who charges $50 evaluation fee + $750
per drive. He also teaches classes on doing it yourself (for big bucks).
His web site is <http://myharddrivedied.com/>.
(On one of mine, I was hoping data recovery would be cheap due to the
cause being in the filesystem rather than the media, but he charges the
same rate regardless.)
--
Eric Christopherson
If the drive's PCB turned out to be the
problem, could an identical
drive model act as a donor for a known-to-be-good PCB?
I've done this on modern drives. It is not particularly tricky.
mcl