Repairing Crashed hard drive

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Does anyone know a good website that provides details of different hard
drive components and how to know if they are bad or not? Or a site that
provides details of things you must do when working on a hard drive? I have
two bad hard drives and I figure that the same parts on them arn't bad and I
can combine the two to get them working hopefully for long enough so I can
recover my data. I know this will not be easy to do but I have to try to
get my data off of it and I cannot spend over $500.00 to send it to a data
recovery company. So far I have found this site which has provided me with
a lot of data.

http://cma.zdnet.com/book/upgraderepair/ch14/ch14.htm#Heading29

Thanks for your help
Any aditional advice appreciated.
Let me know if you want more details.

Thanks
Brad
 
Brad said:
Does anyone know a good website that provides details of different
hard drive components and how to know if they are bad or not? Or a
site that provides details of things you must do when working on a
hard drive? I have two bad hard drives and I figure that the same
parts on them arn't bad and I can combine the two to get them working
hopefully for long enough so I can recover my data. I know this will
not be easy to do but I have to try to get my data off of it and I
cannot spend over $500.00 to send it to a data recovery company. So
far I have found this site which has provided me with a lot of data.

http://cma.zdnet.com/book/upgraderepair/ch14/ch14.htm#Heading29
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If the problem is one related to the electronics on the PCB, you may be able
swap it with a working part. Any problems which are mechanical in nature and
require opening the chassis should be left to a data recovery company.

OTOH, you can always build a clean room and stock it with parts.
 
How should I go about this? Should I just replace the entire electronics
board?

Thanks
BRad
 
How should I go about this? Should I just replace the entire
electronics board?
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You will need the exact same hard drive to swap PCBs. The thing is, is the
problem inside the hard drive or not ?
Did it make any odds sounds before it died ? Whay symptoms were present ?

Repost your question to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage . Lots of
knowledgeable folks in there.

Thanks for the online link to Mueller's book. It's a classic which is now at
the 14th edition or so.
 
Brad W said:
Does anyone know a good website that provides details of different hard
drive components and how to know if they are bad or not? Or a site that
provides details of things you must do when working on a hard drive? I have
two bad hard drives and I figure that the same parts on them arn't bad and I
can combine the two to get them working hopefully for long enough so I can
recover my data. I know this will not be easy to do but I have to try to
get my data off of it and I cannot spend over $500.00 to send it to a data
recovery company. So far I have found this site which has provided me with
a lot of data.

http://cma.zdnet.com/book/upgraderepair/ch14/ch14.htm#Heading29
Click to expand...

That site wont help much. Almost anything you do now will guarantee data
loss. Pay the $500-$1500 or kiss your data goodbye.
 
Ron Reaugh said:
That site wont help much. Almost anything you do now will guarantee data
loss. Pay the $500-$1500 or kiss your data goodbye.
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Ok, Anyone happen to know any good data retrieval companies where I can
get about 20 GB of data on a 40 GB drive back for around the $500.00 price
tag? Because that is the most I can possibly spend.

Thanks
Brad
 
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