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Re: [PLUG] Old hard drive laying around?
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Thanks for the info.
I know there is a risk of swapping the board. It's a gamble to see if I can
recover the data myself. My son, who is 18, is missing about 1/2 of his music
collection because of this but he does not want to pay the big bucks for a
recovery service. I told him it was unlikely to recover the data - but I'd see
what I could do :-)
Eric
On 07/20/2010 01:29 PM, Lee Marzke wrote:
> If you google the Drive number there is a lot of info, and maybe someone selling
> that drive.
>
> Also, found this, which says that switching controller boards will not work:
> *http://tinyurl.com/29n3oxl*
>
> I kind of expected that think like number of platters, bad sector map, etc would
> be burned into the controller at final assembly, and that you couldn't just switch
> them.
>
> Lee
>
> On 07/18/2010 08:23 AM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
> Amul:
>
> Here is the label of the hard drive: http://www.lucii.com/old_drive.jpg
>
> If I can find another WD1800JB-00DUA0 drive I would be overjoyed as that would
> be a perfect match. The closest match I have seen is a 50DUA0 on eBay.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> On 07/17/2010 08:00 PM, Amul Shah wrote:
>
>>>> Ah, sorry for being dense, thanks for the explanation. What year is the
>>>> drive from. I'll open my old G3 to see what it has in it.
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Amul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/milanzfanclub
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/milanzfanclub
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:41 -0400, "Eric at Lucii.org"<eric@lucii.org> wrote:
>>>> Amul:
>>>>
>>>> The only reason the HD version is important is because it has stopped
>>>> spinning
>>>> and I'm trying to do a "cheap" recovery of the data (if possible.) I
>>>> will soon
>>>> put a new HD in the old G4 but that's not going to get the data off of
>>>> the old HD.
>>>>
>>>> If I can find a similar (hopefully identical) circuit card I MAY be able
>>>> to get
>>>> the old drive to work - at least long enough to extract the data from it.
>>>>
>>>> Hence, my odd request.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/17/2010 09:54 AM, Amul Shah wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> HD brand and model are not important in Desktop Macs. For Laptop Macs, go to
>>>>>>> NewEgg and read the reviews by Mac owners.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The only thing that is important is the interface, which should be IDE for
>>>>>>> you.
>>>>>>> You might have a disk capacity limitation based on older hardware (for the
>>>>>>> jokers: Intel machines of the same age have similar limitations). If you
>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>> disks lying around, put one of them in there an reinstall.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which model G4 do you have?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>>> Amul
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jul 16, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Doug:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since I'm trying to swap the electronics on the drive I suspect that brand is
>>>>>>> essential and model is probably important. This is a 180 Gig Western Digital
>>>>>>> Caviar drive so I'm guessing that at least a WD Caviar of similar capacity
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> be required. Please let me know if you have any WD Caviar drives in the
>>>>>>> bunch.
>>>>>>> All I have is a boat-load of old Maxtor drives and a couple of Seagate
>>>>>>> Barracudas.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At my wife's suggestion I'm looking at ebay and craig's list too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Eric
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 07/16/2010 01:08 PM, Douglas Muth wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Eric at Lucii.org<eric@lucii.org>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>> My son's G4 Mac died and apparently it's due to the hard drive not
>>>>>>>>>>> working. I
>>>>>>>>>>> put the drive in an external case and it did not spin-up so I suspect the
>>>>>>>>>>> electronics board is bad.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I'd like to try swapping the electronics to see if we can get it
>>>>>>>>>>> working. If
>>>>>>>>>>> anyone has an old Western Digital Caviar WD1800 (IDE) drive laying
>>>>>>>>>>> around and
>>>>>>>>>>> they'd be willing to donate it or sell it for a small sum you'd make a
>>>>>>>>>>> certain
>>>>>>>>>>> 18 year old music fan VERY happy.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Does it have to be that specific brand and model?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I was actually going through some old hard drives last night and still
>>>>>>>>>> hvae some working ones that you can have (once I wipe them).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -- Doug
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> # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr
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