/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1735716
>i'm saying get the whole bare drive and swap boards. this is what recovery firms do.

not so fast, my negro. it's way more complicated than that. the PCB is matched to the platters at production time, so you need to remove the BIOS chip on the HDD and transfer it to the new PCB. other caveats apply, but this is the big one.

see here, for example, a HOW-TO for Seagate drives: https://www.hddzone.com/seagate_pcb_swap_replacement_guide.html

same site has diff how-to's for Maxtor, IBM, Samsung, and WD.