| Guillermo Moyna on Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:10:23 +0100 |
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How invasive is changing the electronics? Does the platter housing need to be opened, or does the board just unplug? Not at all invasive. The main problem is that the screws on the board are funny-looking (not Phillips, not flat-head, not Allen), but if you get the right flat-head screw-driver you can take them out. After you take out all the screws that secure the board to the disk, you wiggle the board upwards and disconnect it from the disk (it has a 'dip' style connector to the case of the disk, and also - in my Seagate SCSI case - three leads that go into what I think is the motor). Not hard at all - everything comes straight out. Then take this and slap it on the second drive. Voila, you saved the day, got your data back, and feel great for doing it all for 0 dollars (well, if you don't consider your Sunday valuable...). G. ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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