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I'm trying to DIY a hard drive recovery by finding an identical drive to get the PCB board. Does anyone have either a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 40 GB hard drive? I will buy it off of you immediately! I prefer a working one, but if it doesn't work because of clicking or other physical damage I'll take it too. As long as the circuit board isn't fried.
Thanks!!!
I took the hard drive from a computer that didn't work, and plugged it into my desktop. Something short-circuited inside and fried the pcb board. I need to recover some important files from the hard drive.
If that falls through, let me know. I have at least two or three of them. Those drives were dropping like flies at a friends' workplace, he decided to replace all of them. As you've guessed, it's the controller pcb that goes bad -- all of the data on the drive will still be there once you swap a good controller on.
The first guy that contacted me had a matching hard drive. I swapped the PCB board, and the hard drive runs. But unfortunately the bios recognizes it as N40P. I did a google search, and found it it is a firmware issue that isn't on the board. Would anyone know how to fix this? Apparently, only those data recovery pro's can do it. I'm still looking for options so I don't have to pay $750 for it.