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OLIVER IX
12-21-2006, 12:57 AM
hey guys i was told there where alot of I.T guys on this forum so i have a maxtor hard drive that i used for my sticker business and the board on it fried. anyone have a maxtor 40 gig hard drive laying around? ultra ata 5400 or 5700 rpms. i need to swap the board to pull the data out. let me k now guys. thanks

silvery_eagle
12-21-2006, 01:36 PM
wait.. do you fried your board or the drive?

x[corwyn]
12-21-2006, 01:39 PM
hey guys i was told there where alot of I.T guys on this forum so i have a maxtor hard drive that i used for my sticker business and the board on it fried. anyone have a maxtor 40 gig hard drive laying around? ultra ata 5400 or 5700 rpms. i need to swap the board to pull the data out. let me k now guys. thanks


The board on the drive fried? Ouch... Well good luck. A lot of the It guys I know of arent going to have that old of hardware. Hell my 100GB drives are about to get decommisioned.

Also if you try the board swap, it only works once in a while. You takeĀ*a chance that you will erase the data when you do that, or make it worse. If the drive is bad, and you didnt make backups you will probably have to suck it up and just get it recovered. If you want help setting up a low cost backup solution once you have your data, let me know.

Coolguy949
12-21-2006, 01:41 PM
hey guys i was told there where alot of I.T guys on this forum so i have a maxtor hard drive that i used for my sticker business and the board on it fried. anyone have a maxtor 40 gig hard drive laying around? ultra ata 5400 or 5700 rpms. i need to swap the board to pull the data out. let me k now guys. thanks


Is it for a laptop?

OLIVER IX
12-21-2006, 06:04 PM
its for a pc. 1 lil chip on the board got screwed . dam i need that HD =X

ultraflip
12-22-2006, 08:56 AM
i think i have what you're looking for...

OLIVER IX
12-22-2006, 11:27 AM
i think i have what you're looking for...
sweet. lemme know flip

EVOL EDO
12-22-2006, 11:29 AM
so close, i only have a maxtor 30/20/15 and 2 wd 80s

GokuSSJ4
12-22-2006, 11:47 AM
i think i have what you're looking for...
I'm sure you do! you're like a freaking junk yard for computer parts LOL

ultraflip
12-28-2006, 10:16 PM
o.k... i checked at work and i found like 10 80gb maxtor hd's

OLIVER IX
12-28-2006, 11:53 PM
dam i dont think it would work.. i found a simila HD a maxtor 40gig ultra 66 5400 rpms the pc recognizes the drive but i dont think the chipset is compatible, so im gonna need to find the exact same HD =(

ultraflip
12-29-2006, 07:19 AM
i'll keep diggin

Coolguy949
12-29-2006, 05:18 PM
dam i dont think it would work.. i found a simila HD a maxtor 40gig ultra 66 5400 rpms the pc recognizes the drive but i dont think the chipset is compatible, so im gonna need to find the exact same HD =(


what do you mean chipset....what's it doing?

desertRS
12-29-2006, 05:23 PM
well good luck on finding ur board

x[corwyn]
12-29-2006, 05:28 PM
dam i dont think it would work.. i found a simila HD a maxtor 40gig ultra 66 5400 rpms the pc recognizes the drive but i dont think the chipset is compatible, so im gonna need to find the exact same HD =(


what do you mean chipset....what's it doing?


he means the Hard drive chipset. They have to be the EXACT same model or it wont work. That being said the EXACT model from other sizes will work, possibly. I had a buddy tell me he did that from a 120GB Western Digital worked on a 100GB drive. However that was a WD drive not Maxtor, and also it was an immediate swap.

You need to be very careful or you can blow out the rest of the data, which will then be unrecoverable unless you get the Data Recovery specialists involved. Personally at this point if your data is very critical, I would send out your drive to see if it can even be done at this point.

Put up the exact model of the Maxtor drive. I will hunt around later on this weekend and see if one of the old drives we have is a match for that series. But again if your information is that critical, screwing around like this has a good chance of erasing whats on there. You should consider biting the bullet and getting the data pulled off profesionally if its that critical.

Coolguy949
12-29-2006, 05:35 PM
OK, so you're trying to repair the busted drive then?

desertRS
12-29-2006, 05:37 PM
yeah from i get hes trying to replace the board on the actual hardrive i have seen this before it fried on one spot i just tossed the drive but good luck with the swap

Coolguy949
12-29-2006, 05:49 PM
Yeah, i think that is your best bet. Most data recovery places charge thousands.

OLIVER IX
12-29-2006, 06:03 PM
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dam i dont think it would work.. i found a simila HD a maxtor 40gig ultra 66 5400 rpms the pc recognizes the drive but i dont think the chipset is compatible, so im gonna need to find the exact same HD =(


what do you mean chipset....what's it doing?


he means the Hard drive chipset. They have to be the EXACT same model or it wont work. That being said the EXACT model from other sizes will work, possibly. I had a buddy tell me he did that from a 120GB Western Digital worked on a 100GB drive. However that was a WD drive not Maxtor, and also it was an immediate swap.

You need to be very careful or you can blow out the rest of the data, which will then be unrecoverable unless you get the Data Recovery specialists involved. Personally at this point if your data is very critical, I would send out your drive to see if it can even be done at this point.

Put up the exact model of the Maxtor drive. I will hunt around later on this weekend and see if one of the old drives we have is a match for that series. But again if your information is that critical, screwing around like this has a good chance of erasing whats on there. You should consider biting the bullet and getting the data pulled off profesionally if its that critical.

coo thanks man. ill post up the exact model when i get home. the original HD is a ultra ata/100 the one my friend found and kicked down with is a ultra ata /66 the chip set on the board is different, the computer recognizes it but gives out a error, hard disk error and wont boot up and wont boot up even with it slaved . so either im gonna have to find the exact same or see what maxtor charges for recovery or last resort is to take it to the desert and shoot it

x[corwyn]
12-29-2006, 06:25 PM
Maxtor wont do the recovery. And from experience I would say its probably going to be about $700-$1200 minimum for recovery. Could be more if the drive is in really bad shape...as much as $6k.

That would be a prime example of what chipsets not to mix. An ATA/100 drive most certainly will not mix with an ATA/66.

Also after you have your info recovered (or you might want to think of how to reconstruct it also....in some cases this might just be cheaper but not easy as well) you will need to give some though on backing your data up. There are cheap ways to do it, and its far cheaper than trying to recover down the line...not to mention a lot less time consuming.

OLIVER IX
12-29-2006, 07:27 PM
sweet thx 4 the info. yea backups are in the worx..