Swapping board on a Harddrive

[Mike_8989]

HI,

my hard drive recently failed. Through some troubleshooting I'm fairly sure it's a burnout or some other issue with the exterior board.

The failed hard drive is a Seagate 500GB; 7200.10 series.

does anyone know if the board on a 500GB 7200.11 series would be compatible to the point where I could swap the board over to hopefully recover the stuck data?

thanks.

 

[Mike_8989]

ok - so - to expand the question a bit...

what about any other hard drive within the 7200.10 series... would the boards be compatible between them or does the hard drive also have to be same capacity/no. of platters etc?