Hello everyone!

I have a Toshiba 2.5" internal drive and i cant find the matching criteria for a pcb, heads and motor swap.
Data its not important to me at all...
The disk is:
TOSHIBA
MK6025GAS
HDD2189 S ZE01 T


Thanks for your time!

If data is not important at all, why ask for a precise valuable info?

If data is not important, why waste your time on a five-year-old sixty gb broken hard drive?

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

By "not important" I assume you actually mean "it's important but I want the job done cheap or for free"

Otherwise you would be asking for parts to fix a $10 drive.

Good luck with PCB swap on this model btw, it ain't gonna work!

Why don't you tell the actual problem, so a rough diagnosis can be made, rather than just your supposition than the PCB, heads and platters need to be swapped?

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No comment.

Even for educational-experimental purposes, success is needed, dont you think?


Because i heard that Toshiba drives are easiest than others and i can find easily many used Toshiba 2.5" for free..


After a real problem in topic:
wd2500aajs-strange-problem-t10080.html
I was not able to find donor drive but my attention was attracted by this kind of knowledge, so i want to experiment a little bit more with that, just for me...to enrich my knowledge..you see its not my type to spend me free time in front of TV, i like to learn more things about everything, especially in electronics and computers hardware...so why not in hard drives..



No comment so far because i need time for sleep and work...

Toshiba easier? Even PC3K has little support and their inner structure is still 'obscure'... Well, happy tinkering. P.s. Adaptives in BGA... Good luck!!

What's the actual problem with the drive?

Dead? Clicking? Buzzing?

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Hi giannis,

OK, you can get Toshibas for free - GOOD - take them all.
Try swap pcb on two identical working drives, repeat, repeat and repeat.

Take two identical working drives and swap heads, repeat and repeat.

Take two identical drives and swap platters and heads, repeat, repeat.

So now you done some research, then report here and someone will respond
to your findings, cause you would have done what they done already.

So once you reach accurate conclusions you can answer some newbie when the same question
will be asked (This is for sure, repeatedly)

waiting to hear your reports.

This.

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

I dont have personal experience so i cant tell if easier or harder...but thanks!!



The drive is working properly..expect few bad sectors
There is no physical problem with the drive, only normal logical errors...
for this reason i said "data its not important to me"..
For this drive i cant risk to store data anymore, so i decide to experiment with it because i know for sure that is a working drive...
That is the main reason of this topic, to learn how can i identify the best donor drive for testing...
I know a few for WD drives, for pcb must match MDL, Firmware and rev of the board, for heads the DCM 5th-6th, MDL etc. but nothing for Toshiba drives..




Dear derp, I need to know the matching criteria for Toshiba drives to make a donor drive "identical", after that i'll look for the best matching drive of my resources and start experiments..
but how can i match "patient" and donor Toshiba drives?

Thanks everyone for your support!

giannis,

you wrote

I gave you the answer, but if you want to hear it again,

you can't match boards with Toshiba.

Simple heh

Why do you want to change pcb if your drive has bad sectors even with the new pcb the bad sectors will not vanish .