Is It Posible To Pull The Insides Of A Hard Out N Put It In Another?

[Big P]

i have a old ass hard drive with some bent pins and broken contacts were the pc cable goes. Is it posible to pull the insides out and put it in another hard drive? If so does any one have one that will work laying around or know were i can get one. Its a ibm deskstar model IC35L120AVV207-0 I just want to pull every thing off of the hard drive and put it on another one.

[lance_aka_64]

good question.

[Big P]

some more #s off of the drive

IC35L120AVV207-0 P/N 07N9214 MLC H69205

[audiofanaticz]

very good question!

I would think as long as you have matching brand/size drives it would work.

I got a 250gig seagate sitting here with 1 broken pin, got so much music on that drive its not even funny

I was curious about buying a matching junk drive and just swap the boards with the ribbon clip thingy.

[Big P]

yea it sounds posible but I know they take meshures so you cant get inside. Will it still work after you brake the safety torx screw.

[AI James]

why waste the time paper clip the broken pin or use a thin wire to put it inside that plug it where the pin went, ive done it MANY times

[audiofanaticz]

^^^ great idea..

Im gonna try that soon and if it works, your my new hero!!!!!!

I know Im sitting on almost 80 gigs of music on my drive and id really love to be able to access it again!

[Big P]

its all bent up and broken off of the soder humm gess i could pull it out n use 4 or 5 paper clips

[AI James]

ive also soldered small wires into the parts and into the ribbon

[Big P]

i broke one of the brass pins off in side the damn thing now its stuck in there. Oh well its to late to work on it now ill dick with it tomorrow.

I almost had it working earlier but then the pc wouldn't boot up. It asked for a boot disc and tried to boot from the dvd drive