Just a heads up regarding failed harddrives

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/02/12 16:15, Ric Moore wrote:
> Something I didn't know, but found out in a fit of desperation, is 
> that you can buy the PC board for a failed drive fairly cheap, if you 
> suspect that the drive had a board failure. It cost me $35 to replace 
> mine, which fried when I installed a new power supply that went claws 
> up on me. It came with a little special screwdriver, just unscrewed 
> the mounting screws and it came right off. I then installed the new PC 
> board to it and it's running like a charm. It took about 5 minutes. I 
> won't spam the list, but if you need something like that, I'll give 
> you the name of the outfit I used, who I'm really happy with, 
> privately. FYI. :) Ric

Hooray! I am so glad that you got that drive going! :-) .

(You are now going to make (regular) backups from now on, right? O:-) )

BC

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