Hello, I'd like to know if there is an easy way, using free tools, to "combine" two drives to have a working one.
This is the situation: I have two pairs of drives, one is composed of 2 Toshiba MK2565GSX, while the other one is composed of 2 Fujitsu MJA2250BH-G2.
On each pair I have one drive that has broken SATA connector (but probably good disks) and the other drive has good PCB but heavily damaged disks (huge number of remapped sectors). So I'd like to try to save them from the trash bin, combining the best of each one.
My question: is there a way to swap the PCB of the 2 hdd and then reprogram the ROM taking the flash content from the disk with damaged PCB? My only intent is to save one drive, I'm not interested in data rescue as there is nothing valuable on that (ancient) drives!
I just removed the PCB from the drives, to have a look at what's on the back of it and I see that on Toshiba there is a little chip marked IC602 but nothing similar on the Fujitsu pcb. I'm not good with soldering iron so I'm thinking to use, for Toshiba drives, a CH341A USB chip programmer to read/write the ROM directly from the PCB: will it works?
Anyone can give me a little help? Or I have to definitively move these 4 hdd to the trash bin?
Thank you!