Samsung Head replacment

[pcimage]

Hi all,

Got a 160Gb Samsung laptop drive with one bad head (consistant and regular patches of unreadable sectors)

Anybody head-swapped one of these before?

Is it enough to match model and country?

Or is there something else I need to check?

Not done one of these new Samsung laptop drive before.

The details from the label:

Model: HM160JI
P/N: HM160JI/FRC
LBA 312,581,808 160.0Gb M80S

SEC-HM160JI(B)

2007.4
Cheers

Sean

[darkforce1]

Dear Sean

To replace samsung head you have to match P/V code
example if P/V MS then M is the media used in it and S is the Head used in it.

So to be sure you can match both the thing I prefer complete P/V code
P/V MS patient then MS for doner

DF

[pcimage]

Hi DF,

Yep I know about P/V code on desktop drives, but I can't see one on this laptop drive.

160Gb: Almost brand new.

Thanks for your input

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This is the drive:

As you can see, no P/V number

Now, there's a "Rev. A" and a "SEC-HM160JI(B)

[dmarques]

Try to match M80S bellow.

[pcimage]

Hi David,

Yeah I was looking at that, but I figured that was the family code. You can do a Google search on "Samsung M80S" and it'll find loads!

But I'll give it a whirl anyway. Usually laptop drives aren't quite so fussy anyway.

Cheers

Sean