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Hard Drive Recovery from a Full Stop

Step 3Plug and Pray

Plug the ATA and power into your hopefully functional frankenstein drive, make sure the jumper is set correctly on the new board and hope that it works!

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Sep 21, 2007. 3:52 PMRobbo_roberto says:

Ahhhrggg. Had the same problem with a Western Digital drive. Incredibly, had two drives that were the same but the firmware version on the second was different and the controller board from the other drive wouldn't communicate witth the drive that had the failed controller board. WD wouldn't sell me a replacement controller board! Bstrds! No more WD drives for me. Two dead 250G drives in less than a year! All my digitised video. It's all there but can't get at it!

Nov 1, 2007. 6:38 AMmoonlightcomputers says:

Go to www.myharddrivedied.com and find the instructional videos regarding logic board replacement. If you watch the videos you will find a "hot swapping" technique that might just fix your problems.

Sep 2, 2006. 5:30 PMJagged Edge says:

what MsWiz said. This makes me quite happy, glad the infromation is out there for the public.

Apr 20, 2006. 12:35 PMMsWiz says:

I have a drive sitting here for 18 months now waiting for one of it's sisters to give up the ghost so it can have the PC board. Glad to see others using htis as well.