First Circuit board swap. need some quick advice please...

[FNFERRARIFUN]

Hello,

I have a Maxtor 60g 96147H6 that just clicks. I have another similar drive. I'm going to swap the cards and try to recover a large Itunes library.

1. If i swap the board, will it change anything on the board that would prevent it from working properly on the original working drive? (donor)

2. What other steps can i try, running software, etc, to try and recover these files?

I read about the hot swop. So basically, you start up with the good drive and, run a program to spin down the drive, then carefully switch the mechanical part with the troubled drive. then let the software spin up the drive? Is that correct.

Thanks in advance.

Peace

Max

[pepe]

Hi,

Probably the swapping process won't damage your donor PCB.
However from the symptoms U described I doubt the PCB swap will solve the problem.
Hot swap won't give U any good, but in some cases it can cause damage to preamp IC(inside the HDA) and damage the board itself, but I only experienced such things on 4D0x0Hy and 5T0x0Hy drives (D540X-4D and Diamondmax Plus60).
If the PCB swap gives no results (HDD still clicking), U got a head related issue (one or more heads or preamp damaged). In this case U need professional help.

regards,
pepe