On Thursday 10 September 2020 01:02:08 pm William Morder via tde-users wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2020 10:44:42 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users > > I understand. I mean swap out the IDE boards on the drives. > > Make sure to mark the bad one so you don't try to reuse it. > > > > I've done that only a few times but it works. They must be the same > > model. > > I do have another 1.5 TB hard drive (though I would need to backup its data > first); however, it is WD, not Seagate, and I would not willingly buy > another Seagate hard drive. Check ebay for a used drive (same exact model!), you might find one for $10. What Kate is referring to is what data recovery services basically do in reverse. * You’d be taking the electronic guts out of a ‘good’ drive and sticking them in your ‘bad’ drive. Expect to chuck both of them into the trash when done. Like Kate, I’d guess it’s the electronics, not the platters. Any physical damage to a platter is usually a lot more than a few bytes. And would be getting worse every time it was powered on. HTH, Michael * They usually rip the platters out of a 'bad' drive and stick them in a 'good' drive housing. But they have clean rooms and the like... _______________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
