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HDD not found in BIOS

drum

drum

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I have a deskstar 30GB HDD that is no longer recognized by the bios and has the ol click click click.

I found another lying around that is pretty close in model to this one except for it is 20 GB.
I switched controllers on the HDDs and now the 30GB that was clicking no longer clicks and the 20GB HDD that wasn't clicking now clicks.
If I were able to find an identical 30GB HDD as the original and switched the controllers, is there any chance the bios would see it?

the bad news is that the IBM IC35L030AVER07-0 30GB drives were sold OEM manufacturers only, so finding one is going to be tough.

Am I way off or is there a chance this could work?

EDIT: by controller I should clarify that I mean the board on the bottom of the HDD where the ribbon and molex plug in as well as the PCB
 
They call those 'Deathstars' 🙂. So you physically swapped the electronics from one drive to the other? Interesting, seems like the clicking problem is in the controller then.

I'll skip the obligatory "dude, those drives are worth like $4" comment, since I can't believe you'd be doing this unless you either really need to, or are really bored 🙂.

I think the BIOS will detect a replacement, but I don't know why you'd want to keep swapping the electronics. Didn't you just prove that the problem with the first drive was in the electronics? If you were to find a replacement, why take (presumably) good parts out of it and replace them with provably bad parts?
 
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: Markbnj
If you were to find a replacement, why take (presumably) good parts out of it and replace them with provably bad parts?
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Data Recovery
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winner.

yeah, i know those drives were made with jello platters but I just need to get it recognized so i can possibly squeeze some data off.

It isn't my drive, i'm just about out of ideas. This gave me hope since i swapped the board and the clicking stopped.
I was just looking to see if someone might have a better grasp on this idea and if I would be wasting my time trying to find a drive to swap this PCB with.
 
If you look on the PCB there are some model numbers that have to match EXACTLY. I found that out when a PCB on a maxtor drive fried and they needed the data off it. Bought a PCB from ebay that had the same markings and it worked flawlessly. Came from a larger drive but that didn't matter apparently as long as the numbers were the same on the PCB.

Then we put the drive in the computer again and found out the reason why the first PCB died was the PSU was doing something crazy and lit the new PCB on fire....
Good thing we got the data off first onto my brother's computer before putting the drive back.
 
Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
If you look on the PCB there are some model numbers that have to match EXACTLY. I found that out when a PCB on a maxtor drive fried and they needed the data off it. Bought a PCB from ebay that had the same markings and it worked flawlessly. Came from a larger drive but that didn't matter apparently as long as the numbers were the same on the PCB.

Then we put the drive in the computer again and found out the reason why the first PCB died was the PSU was doing something crazy and lit the new PCB on fire....
Good thing we got the data off first onto my brother's computer before putting the drive back.
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I had a feeling. The one I tried is close but not close enough.
A couple of the chips are different, but your results give me more hope, thanks.
 
Originally posted by: drum
Originally posted by: drum
any other opinions?
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hm
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sorry i can't help out but marked for an interesting outcome...

maybe put up a pic or explain a bit in the fs/ft forums and maybe somebody can help you get the part you need?
 
Originally posted by: bendixG15
Cleveland Indians in '07!

Make that 2107 ....
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:| :laugh:

must be a bitter Royals fan.


yeah Bob I may see if someone has one laying around in FS/FT
 
If everything is identical except for the LBA... 58.... vs 60, I wonder if that would make a difference.
 
Originally posted by: drum
If everything is identical except for the LBA... 58.... vs 60, I wonder if that would make a difference.
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30 GB vs 30.7
Somehow I doubt this would work
 
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