Hi,
I need to do a head replacement on a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 and have spent the last 3 hours searching online for a suitable donor drive.
I have finally stumbled across a drive for sale that has an identical DRIVE REV, identical HDD code and both are manufactured in china. Even the labels are identical.
However the serial numbers are very different and they were manufactured about 2 years apart. To the untrained eye (mine) they look like a perfect match but from reading various posts online I am uncertain, as some posts have suggested the first few digits of the serial number should also match.
Could anybody guide me on this please?
Thanks

Just done a head swap on one of these myself, I just matched the model, and got the closest matching dates I could. Drive REV, HDD code we all different but still worked. I could of just been lucky, but worth a try if you have other drives laying around to try.

Great! Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try with the drive I found online.