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Data Recovery from a hard drive

My dell dimension seagate hard drive failed. We are tring to retrieve data. Attached it to usb hard drive case to pull data but the drive is not spinning. Now, I have purchased a similar seagate drive. The only difference between the drive is the firmware. The new drive has latest firmware. I am trying to remove the logic board of the new drive and put it on the bad drive. Would that work? Any suggestions? how can I get the drive with the exact same firmware to swap the logic board.

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Biren

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nobus

here a guy that did it :

http://www.deadharddrive.com/

from what he stated, you need an exact match (revision), and even then it is not guaranteed to work on the newer drives.

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birenshukla

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thanks for all the comments.

The bad drive is 40GB Seagate Barracuda Firmware 3.16. Configuration DZU-06
The new drive is 40GB Seagate Barracuda Firmware 8.01 Configuration CXQ-01

I know that there was a burning smell when I tried to attach the external USB case to the drive so I know that the power board is bad. I am going to replace and see as I do not have have much choice. No it does not boot when attached as slave. Will keep you posted.

nobus

Ok - fine. . .

BillDL

waiting with baited breath ...

birenshukla

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added drive as slave and was able to pull data off...swaping logc boards did not work...thanks!

BillDL

That's great news. Well done. Swapping circuit boards was certainly worth trying anyway. Thank you.