- Jul 11, 2007
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I have recently had a Hard disk faliure on my storage/backup drive, and 'lost' quite a large amount of important information. I seemed to have gotten the 1 in 1 billion chance to have a backup drive die while in the process of reformatting my main drive... meaning what was on it was the only copy of my stuff. -_-
Now, from what I can tell, the failed hard drive has a fried circuit board, as when connected to any SATA and power cord in my comp, doesn't spin, or get picked up by the BIOS. I'm hoping that it's just the board that's fried and not the motor, 'cause technically that means I can switch the fried board off the drive for a working one, right?
The failed drive is a Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250gb 8mb SATA
I'm wondering if it's possible to rotate the fried board off with a board from one of the following:
- WD2500JB (250gb Caviar SE EIDE)
- WD2000JS (200gb Caviar SE SATA)
Or would I have to find the exact same drive to replace the boards down to the model number WD2500JS-xxxxxx <-- whatever the x's are on my drive.
I know it would void warranties on 2 drives, but if it's a good chance it would work, I'd rather void warranties on two 75 dollar hard drives than pay 1000 dollars to get my information recovered.
Thank you!
Now, from what I can tell, the failed hard drive has a fried circuit board, as when connected to any SATA and power cord in my comp, doesn't spin, or get picked up by the BIOS. I'm hoping that it's just the board that's fried and not the motor, 'cause technically that means I can switch the fried board off the drive for a working one, right?
The failed drive is a Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250gb 8mb SATA
I'm wondering if it's possible to rotate the fried board off with a board from one of the following:
- WD2500JB (250gb Caviar SE EIDE)
- WD2000JS (200gb Caviar SE SATA)
Or would I have to find the exact same drive to replace the boards down to the model number WD2500JS-xxxxxx <-- whatever the x's are on my drive.
I know it would void warranties on 2 drives, but if it's a good chance it would work, I'd rather void warranties on two 75 dollar hard drives than pay 1000 dollars to get my information recovered.
Thank you!