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How do i get data off of a broken hard drive?
mrhowell:
Do you see the hard drive in CMOS? Is it formatted FAT or NTFS?
Sephroth57:
i havent tried seeing if the bios recognizes it, i will try that when i get home
krick:
--- Quote from: ntjedi on December 08, 2004, 04:33:17 pm ---If you are really adventurous you could (hopefully inexpensive) find the same model hard drive of the one you fried and ... replace the system board...
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I did this for my neighbor earlier this year. he had a 20GB Western Digital drive that had a fried chip on the board. I managed to find the exact same drive on eBay. It cost me $30 but my neighbor was glad to pay that to get his data back.
It took me about 5 minutes to swap the boards on the drives just 4 screws each. Worked perfect.