Unsure of Logic board swap hard drive specs

[chak331]

I have a crashed drive. I have important data on the crashed drive that I need to back up. I was advised to try a logic board swap as a more risk free option than freezing or rapping the drive.

I have located a donor drive but am not sure this will work because there are some variations in the specs. Any advice on whether the donor drive logic board might work would be great.

Here are the drive specs

CRASHED DRIVE SPECS

Apple Branded
Western Digital Expert 205BA
MDL: WD205BA-40AK
CCC: A1 18 AUG 99
DCM: CRNBLKMO
20GB TRIDE 655T0022 WC93300Y5H7YA

DONOR DRIVE SPECS

Apple Branded
Western Digital Expert 273BA
MDL: WD273BA-40AK
CCC: A1 25 AUG 99
DCM: CSNBLKMO
27GB TRIDE 655T0023 WM934004MH83A

Last edited by chak331 on February 6th, 2013, 8:04, edited 1 time in total.

[positivebit]

Double posting:

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[chak331]

Okay how do I delete my earlier post so this one is the only post that is read?

[pcimage]

logic board swap as a more risk free option than freezing or rapping the drive

freezing or rapping the drive ?

Are you really trying to recover the data out of it or are you trying to destroy the drive for good ?

Agree.

How could you possibly consider "freezing or rapping" an option at all??? DO NOT DO IT!!

[lcoughey]

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