08-11-2012, 10:05 PM
Geeze, I would be overwhelmed trying to do that.. I hear it costs a couple thousand dollars to pay to have it done. That's what Leo the tech guy says, but he's sponsored by a data backup service.
I had an xbox 360 drive fail. I needed to use the same drive serial on my xbox.. So I replaced the physical lazor and moving parts of the drive and kept the controlling chip board the same.. Of course it was the same type of drive and fit perfect.
I can only speculate.. that something like that could be done.. By swapping the drive platters with an identical working drive. I have a half dozen broken hard drives laying around.. Some of them work sometimes.. But luckily I have never lost important data.
I can also guess that the internals can be seen online.. Look up that model and pictures maybe even guides online. I hope that data isn't too important.. I am pretty pessimistic about the success of doing that.
I had an xbox 360 drive fail. I needed to use the same drive serial on my xbox.. So I replaced the physical lazor and moving parts of the drive and kept the controlling chip board the same.. Of course it was the same type of drive and fit perfect.
I can only speculate.. that something like that could be done.. By swapping the drive platters with an identical working drive. I have a half dozen broken hard drives laying around.. Some of them work sometimes.. But luckily I have never lost important data.
I can also guess that the internals can be seen online.. Look up that model and pictures maybe even guides online. I hope that data isn't too important.. I am pretty pessimistic about the success of doing that.