Re: Hard drive surgery

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:40:04PM -0500, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
> I've just had a silent drive failure on an IBM TravelStar 48G 5400rpm 2.5"
> 9mm notebook drive. As I look over this situation, its scale is a whole
> lot smaller than the old five-inch half-height Seagates, and the circuit
> board mounting screws are now v-e-r-y tiny Torx-types. I'm wondering... if
> I can find an identical IBM 48 gigger that works, could I swap circuit
> boards to restore my bad drive to service?  Long enough to tarball its
> contents to an 80 gigger anyway.

I'd be willing to bet that you could, assuming it's the same (or a
very similar) model.  I've never done that with a laptop hard drive,
but I've done that somewhat recently (within the last 5 years, I'm
sure) with desktop drives.

Steve
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