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Steve S \(another one\)
A friend's 6-month old notebook has failed. Needless to say, she has
irreplaceable files on the drive for which she has no backup. The drive
apparently won't spin up. She's had a estimated price for data recovery, but
this is totally outside her budget. It occurred to me that, assuming she
wants the notebook working again anyway, she could buy an identical
replacement drive and try swapping the controller boards over to see it the
fault was on the controller rather than the mech. Would this be a reasonable
thing to try? Or do the controllers have stuff like calibration info in
flash that would render the idea non-feasible?
Steve S
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irreplaceable files on the drive for which she has no backup. The drive
apparently won't spin up. She's had a estimated price for data recovery, but
this is totally outside her budget. It occurred to me that, assuming she
wants the notebook working again anyway, she could buy an identical
replacement drive and try swapping the controller boards over to see it the
fault was on the controller rather than the mech. Would this be a reasonable
thing to try? Or do the controllers have stuff like calibration info in
flash that would render the idea non-feasible?
Steve S
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