[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mark Shuford wrote:

> Get the PC board off the new drive and put it on the broken one.

> I've fixed a couple of drives like this in the past.

I've assumed (without any real data) that the clicking was 
due to breaking of the wires on the ribbon cable to the 
heads from the flexing. I didn't think that electronics 
would die.

Do disks die from the electronics rather than mechanical 
problems?

Joe

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