Repairing hard drives

In article <47bb4f72$0$265$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com>, Plato <|@|.|> wrote:
>Avatar wrote:
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>> I am planning to purchase similar drives (working) on eBay in order to use
>> their controller boards.
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>People sell stuff that doesn't work on Ebay...
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Thats why you dont never evey buy things from people with less that %100
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In article <O5Bviz0cIHA.4144@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, "Ed Covney" <ed(dot)covney(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Is it sufficient to get a similar model number (Seagate IDE 7200.8 and
>> Maxtor IDE DiamondMax 16, in this case) so their controllers can be used?
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>Contact Seagate and/or Maxtor - The "controllers" are likely
>on your motherboard. The interface cards mounted on the
>bottom of the drives contain the drive's "bad track data" which
>is different (data content) for every drive.
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>Swapping the cards may work for a few selected files. Don't
>expect to recover everything.
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>Good luck beating Murphy.
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I have never had that issue and i have recovered over 7 drives this way.

By far the best software for repairing a hard drive is Spinrite
http://www.grc.com/intro.htm .

I just repaired one for a friend in which Dell had already shipped a
replacement hard drive.

Read the info on what this software can do and you will be amazed.


"Avatar" <avatar@uinverse.brane> wrote in message
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"Avatar" <avatar@uinverse.brane> wrote in message
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>I apologize for this not-really-a-WindowsXP-question.
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The data is important - actually the intent is to get to a couple of
specific folders in both the drives - both are 300 GB, BTW.

I am also pricing out a commercial data recovery service as a possible
option, weighing in both costs as well as work required.

Thanks and regards.

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