I've got a friend's dead hdd, from which they would like to retrieve
whatever it is they had stored on there.
Story is the hdd in question (PATA, ie non SATA hdd) was used in an
external case for backup purposes. Was working fine - then just died
without any indications of trouble at all. just wouldn't fire up one
day, no clicking, nothing - dead as the proverbial doornail.
Does not spin up in any way shape or form, does not register in a PC's
bios if installed 'internally'.
Now I'm wondering if it may be that something on the hdd's PCB may have
failed as opposed to a mechanical failure of some sort.
If i can get exactly the same model hdd and remove it's PCB - is it just
a straight forward swap? I was reading somewhere that you might still
have to replace some chip or other from the original PCB as it would
contain information specific for that drive.
cheers
rb
