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Thanks for the advice/encouragement.  I'll post results after
attempting.  I think the circuit board swap may be easier than swapping out
platters.

Ian Carmichael



At 03:29 PM 7/25/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>1.  Hard to say.  If it was an old machine, it could be that some sort of
>power surge went through the system when you shut it off.  We could dance
>around it for weeks, with many different theories, and still not know for sure.
>
>2.  I have actually removed the platters from a hard drive and put them
>into an identical model ....and was able to get the information from the
>drive.... never tried replacing the circuit board, but I know that some
>former co-workers of mine were able to do this. ....I haven't seen it done
>enough to say that it will work every time, but it's certainly worth a try.
>
>The other alternative is to find a local company that specializes in data
>recovery for exactly the type of situation you are in.  My understanding
>is that they are very expensive.
>
>Kyle Elmblade


>I've never seen that, but what I have seen are a few who have taken the
>platter out and put it in another HD to recover data, but you have to be
>very very careful.
>Dave Jones
>





>----- Original Message -----
>From: "AMD950" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:27 PM
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Fried HD
>
>Discovered that an old HP I use for device programming would not boo.....
>circuit board on the HD literally fried; one corner black & crumbling.
>Drive contains data that cannot be replaced....
>
>Question 1: What could have caused this?
>
>Question 2: Is it possible to replace circuit board on HD (if I can find
>it) and maybe recover data?
>
>Ian Carmichael




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