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Step 4Testing it
Success!
Man I was lucky, and yes I know my solder job looks like crap, but it works.
First
I used an old power supply to see if the hard drive would (you tell by the sound and feel)) turn on with no IDE cable connected. It worked!
I don't think it will work for long with this wildly different transistor, but it will work long enough for me to get all my data off of it.
Second
I then attached it to my good working computer on the second IDE channel with a high speed ATA IDE cable.
The motherboard BIOS saw its correct size. My operating system booted normally from the first IDE channel and properly mounted the secondhard drive and I could browse it.
I quickly powered down from the test.
I will make space on my existing hard drive and transfer all the data over before the drive dies.
Its life expectancy now is unknown
Man I was lucky, and yes I know my solder job looks like crap, but it works.
First
I used an old power supply to see if the hard drive would (you tell by the sound and feel)) turn on with no IDE cable connected. It worked!
I don't think it will work for long with this wildly different transistor, but it will work long enough for me to get all my data off of it.
Second
I then attached it to my good working computer on the second IDE channel with a high speed ATA IDE cable.
The motherboard BIOS saw its correct size. My operating system booted normally from the first IDE channel and properly mounted the secondhard drive and I could browse it.
I quickly powered down from the test.
I will make space on my existing hard drive and transfer all the data over before the drive dies.
Its life expectancy now is unknown
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Mar 31, 2008. 9:02 PMKegtapper
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suggestion: Remove some of the solder from the legs. Use Flux Paste and allow heat to spread the solder smoothly under the chip - that backplane of the chip also acts as a heatsink.
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