[Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

[abrown at peak.org]

I don't have a duplicate.  I wonder how closely they have to match...

Anybody have a 250GB IBM?  I'm willing to trade it
for something bigger if you are interested.  Or SATA if you
prefer.  Let me know what you want and I will buy it for you.
--
Allen

> On Fri, 18 May 2007, abrown at peak.org wrote:
>
>> I damaged my hard drive. The BIOS intermittently recognizes it.
>> Not sure what happened.  Best I can figure I must have zapped
>> it with static.
>>
>> Sometimes static will weaken transistors without completely
>> killing them.  That would be consistent with the symptoms.
>> The ATA pins are working, just not at spec.  And not well
>> enough for the computer to read the drive.
>>
>> Do any of you know who can read a damaged drive?  If my guess
>> is right, this will be more than playing with software.  It
>> will require some hardware smarts.
>>
>> I have reconstructed quite a bit from other computers and hard
>> drives.  But there are a lot of things I didn't have backed up.
>
> If you have another of the same exact model of hard drive, sometimes you
> can swap the controller board.  Just make sure you back up that drive
> first in case you have some other problem that eats controller boards.
>
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