A friend of mine has an IBM 60GB deskstar IDE hard drive that just died rather unexpectedly one day, no prior problems, no funny noises, just a BSOD and then when the pc was restarted there nothing there.
I checked the bios, changed the cable and the jumpers, still not a peep from it.
Now, we want to try and recover the data on this drive if possible and I remember reading somewhere that sometimes you can pop off the controller board and swap it with the controller from a working hard drive.
Has anyone ever done this? how often does it work and does it have to be the exact same model drive? could I get away with using the controller from a 40 or 80GB drive?
any information would be useful, cheers
I checked the bios, changed the cable and the jumpers, still not a peep from it.
Now, we want to try and recover the data on this drive if possible and I remember reading somewhere that sometimes you can pop off the controller board and swap it with the controller from a working hard drive.
Has anyone ever done this? how often does it work and does it have to be the exact same model drive? could I get away with using the controller from a 40 or 80GB drive?
any information would be useful, cheers