can i transplant platters from ide to sata drive
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- May 18, 2007
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No: in general, you cannot even swap platters between otherwise identical HDDs due to different firmware calibration data.
- Apr 29, 2006
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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.
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.
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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