Recovering zapped hard drives

[Richard Dice]

Hi Alex,

What I've heard is that this could be nigh impossible unless he has the
correct alternative PCBs to work with.  And just buying another hard drive
of the same make/model isn't good enough.  You basically have to buy from
the same OEM _batch_.  Theyr'e always making tweaks to the design and using
alternate subcomponent suppliers so the PCB on the drive you buy this week
isn't going to be the same one as what you buy on the "same" drive a week
from now.

Cheers,
 - Richard

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Alex Beamish <talexb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hello TLUG,
>
> I was talking with a friend this weekend -- he has two PCs that were
> zapped by lightning recently, and this has apparently fried the hard
> drives. Apparently the drives don't even spin up any more.
>
> He has had a few people try to get data from these drives, without
> success. Before laying five large on a data recovery service, he's
> going to try one more thing, which is to order identical drives and
> swap the hard drive PCBs. Has anyone tried this procedure? Are there
> any reports of successes?
>
> Thanks.
>
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