hmunster123 wrote:
If I have a hard drive that's 80gb and another that's 120gb, what happens if I exchange the platters? Will they be read by the computer? Both have data on them. Thanks.
I know as teachers you love to use expressions like: "There's no such thing as a dumb question"
However, as kids we came up with all sorts of dumb questions to drive our teachers nuts.
Anyway, your original question is equivalent to asking: "If I switch the brains of a rat and a mouse, what will happen?". The answer is pretty much the same too: You'll end up with two dead rodents.
It's not to say what you're proposing is impossible, in fact just this week I did perform a three platter transplant from a 250GB WD drive into a 320GB HDA. However it's not as simple as it sounds. First off I knew that this model was originally slated to be a 320Gb, but two platter surfaces didn't meet quality control standards so the heads were disabled and it was downgraded to a 250GB. Also after platter transplant read/write heads were also replaced, PCB ROM adaptives were transferred into the donor PCB. Despite all that effort, and professional equipment, we've only managed to read a couple GB of data from it so far. Now we are waiting on some other donor parts to come in so we can force load the service area into the RAM of the PCB before hot swapping it back over to the patient hard drive and then we can hopefully get more data recovered from it.
But, if you plan to just open up two drives move the platters around and plug them in, you're 100% guaranteed to end up with two dead drives.
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