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can i transplant platters from ide to sata drive

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October 15, 2014 7:56:46 AM

Switching platters from ide to sata

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a c 100 G Storage
October 15, 2014 8:00:09 AM

What the problem with the IDE HDD?
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a b G Storage
October 15, 2014 8:00:37 AM

Won't work. The controller will be expecting IDE signals but will be getting SATA signals instead. You'll need to get an IDE controller if you want to read what's on the drive.
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a b G Storage
October 15, 2014 8:02:02 AM

No: in general, you cannot even swap platters between otherwise identical HDDs due to different firmware calibration data.
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a c 265 G Storage
October 15, 2014 8:03:43 AM

Platters are installed in clean room environment!
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a c 101 G Storage
October 15, 2014 8:05:39 AM

Open a drive and you will basically destroy the contents. These devices are put together in a clean environment to ensure no contaminants enter into them.

Don't expect to save anything by doing as proposed.
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a b G Storage
October 15, 2014 8:14:32 AM

Yeah, you can't do this. The clean room issue is not even in question. You would need the same controller card from the one drive that actually has all the calibration data on it for the platters. It just wouldn't work.
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October 15, 2014 8:46:34 AM

When you pop open a mechanical drive its officially broken...

Let alone detaching/attaching platters and the read/write arm with all the wiring.
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a b G Storage
October 15, 2014 9:21:22 AM

I've heard of people doing this. I wouldn't do it if you lived in a dusty area, or if the drive still worked. But if you got nothing to lose, it's worth a shot. But you need an identical drive, you can't swap connections like that.
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October 15, 2014 11:16:48 AM

First of all, platter swaps almost never work. I work in a professional data recovery lab and we almost never swap platters. We'll swap heads, bearings, or anythings else first before resorting to that.

To pull off a head swap you need a drive that is built to all the same specs, in the same factory, and on the same production line, or it will never work. So unless you know how to interpret things like DCM codes on the label, don't bother. We even struggle to find matching parts.
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