On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:35:22PM -0800, John Robertson wrote: > > If the drive's PCB turned out to be the problem, could an identical > > drive model act as a donor for a known-to-be-good PCB? > > I've done this on modern drives. It is not particularly tricky. > > mcl
It can work. But I remember reading that each PCB keeps track of bad physical blocks; if you transplant the PCB from another drive, you might end up with a different set of bad blocks beings saved. I still haven't gotten rich enough to use his services, but I've talked to this guy named Scott Moulton, who charges $50 evaluation fee + $750 per drive. He also teaches classes on doing it yourself (for big bucks). His web site is <http://myharddrivedied.com/>. (On one of mine, I was hoping data recovery would be cheap due to the cause being in the filesystem rather than the media, but he charges the same rate regardless.) -- Eric Christopherson