Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
September 1st, 2014, 22:05
It probably won't help, but try gently cleaning the J1 contacts (bottom left corner of PCB) with a soft pencil eraser.
Also it would be a good idea to retrieve the drive's firmware modules now that it is still working.
http://sediv2008.narod.ru/Easy3.9Passwo ... 567890.rarA replacement PCB would need to be reprogrammed with the patient's "ROM" code. A straight PCB swap without a firmware transfer would be unlikely to work.
September 19th, 2014, 14:42
Believe it or not, the soft pencil eraser worked! I was able to get all of the data off of the drive without issue.
Thanks for all the help!
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