[Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

[abrown at peak.org]

Oops!  My bad.  It's not an IBM.  Its a WD2500 Cavaliar.
WD2500JB-00EVA0 dated 16 Dec 2003.
Anybody have one of those I can trade?
--
Allen

> 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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