WD400 - Platter swap or head transplant?

[gbulger]

I have a WD400BB-60DAG0 with bad heads. Am I more likely to have better success wih swapping the platter into a good donor or swapping heads? I'd appreciate some opinions from some of you seasoned techs. In fact, in general, is head transplant prferrable to platter swap on single platter drives? On multi platter drives?

Thanks for your opinions,
Gordon

[dobrevjetser]

Its always preferable to do a head swap (except maxtors N40P and alikes).
Platter swap can give a lot of problems (alignment, eccentricity etc ...) and should always be used as a last resort.

Dobre

[lcoughey]

Its always preferable to do a head swap (except maxtors N40P and alikes).
Platter swap can give a lot of problems (alignment, eccentricity etc ...) and should always be used as a last resort.

I agree...don't risk the moving the platters when not needed. If you have the right donor drive and tools, this is a fairly easy drive for moving the heads.

[HDD Spaz]

if you drop the heads the data wont be lost. If you drop the platters, who knows!

[unknown]

agree with HDD Spaz

[networkpc3000]

agree with above friends opinions. just take less time & easy way to do it right.

[networkpc3000]

in the front of your destination just take 5 Min. why you had to waste more and more time walk around the earth go there?