[Gllug] Anyone know anything about hardware ?

[Joel Bernstein]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:32:41PM -0000, Wiehe, Simon wrote:
> I have a faulty hard disk and investigations show that it is a manufacturing fault with a chip on the controller board and there is nothing wrong with the platters or data. I have got a quote of £400+vat to recover the data, they also state that under no circumstances should I attempt to replace the controller board as this store drive characteristics and will cause a drive failure and lose my data.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas how I can get this data off the disk? Currently the disk is not recognised by the BIOS, although I have not tried it in a second machine to see if it is recognised in there.

Firstly, please do try to keep your lines under 76 characters in length.

Secondly, you haven't mentioned what kind of disk it is. SCSI? IDE?
Something else entirely? Who made it? What model of disk is it?

I've had success in the past with swapping the logic board on a broken
disc with a spare one from the same model of disk. It's conceivable that
what you're being told is true - perhaps some crucial piece of disk
information is stored on the controller board for your disk - but I'd be
sceptical about this until I had further evidence. 

Apart from anything else, a data recovery company is likely to have a
vested interest in misinforming you about the possibility of swapping
disk controllers ;)

If you can reply with this information I may be able to help you
further, but obviously no guarantees ;)

/joel
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