Help on repairing faulty Hard Drives - Logic Board query

Hi all

Power surge has damaged the 3 hard drives in one of our PCs. 3G
Fujitsu, 15Gb IBM, and 30Gb Maxtor.

Does anyone out there have direct experience of swopping logic circuit
boards for any of these makes?

Our progress so far: we've managed to get a match for the Maxtor,
most of the numbers match up, but the (new) drive is a 40gB. We've
had conflicting reports - some people say it will work, so long as all
the other numbers match. Others say it won't, and must be exactly the
same capacity.

We're not trying to completely repair the drive for use, but just long
enough for data retrieval.

If you have done this before, and know what pitfalls we need to avoid,
I'd be very grateful for any constructive info.

cheers

-DaveB

 

|> Hi all
|>
|> Power surge has damaged the 3 hard drives in one of our PCs. 3G
|> Fujitsu, 15Gb IBM, and 30Gb Maxtor.
|>
|> Does anyone out there have direct experience of swopping logic circuit
|> boards for any of these makes?

Maxtor, but they are all the same. My swaps of logic boards have always been
from identical drives, and all successful.

|> Our progress so far: we've managed to get a match for the Maxtor,
|> most of the numbers match up, but the (new) drive is a 40gB. We've
|> had conflicting reports - some people say it will work, so long as all
|> the other numbers match. Others say it won't, and must be exactly the
|> same capacity.

Depends on how bad you want the drive to work, as to how close they match up.

 

Thanks for that. Actually we've bitten the bullet and swopped the
logic board from the 40Gb to the 30Gb. It wasn't a system drive so we
put it into an XP machine as a slave, and it's seen it fine. Files
were copying over when we left work, so should be ok.

Now, if anyone out there knows if IBM & Fujitsu are as easy...

-DaveB