Hard drive controller swapping....

[masked1]

My old Maxtor 60GB has just died....It's not spinning properly....I have heard that you can still recover the data by swappng out the controller board????

Anyone know any links or useful information as to how I can perform this???

I understand that I need the exact model...

Thanks

 

[KGB]

Is it spinning at all?

Perhaps you should try the freezing method.

 

[masked1]

I presume its spinning as its making clicking noises....is this freezing trick for real?

 

[johnjkr1]

Sometimes the freezer trick does work. switching out the controller board for clicking noises wont help you much though.

 

[masked1]

any other ways to recovering the data????

I am desperate...going to try that freeze trick....

any other tricks????

 

[johnjkr1]

If the drive is identified by the bios, you can try putting it into another machine and trying to pull off the data with some data recovery software. If not, just use your latest backup. You have a recent backup, right? If not, get out your checkbook for some data recovery!!!!

 

[masked1]

I think it might have to be the latter!