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I've got a Lacie 500GB external HDD with all my ipod library and lots of photo's on. It's quite an old thing, but works(ed) fine.
Looks like this:
Anyway over the weekend it got 'toddlered', I'm not sure if it was dropped or what as my wife was in charge, but the plug at the HDD end of the USB cable seems a bit slack now. Since then the PC can't read it, and it chunters and click's away to itself randomly. I've stripped it down (to a point) and have taken the drive part away from the PCB as shown below.
I've not faffed too much with the PCB as I do want to be able to recover the data on there.
So the question is do I pick up a matching HDD cheap from ebay and hope that I can swap my existing drive into the new frame/pcb (are they compatible assuming it's the same model?) - or should I leave well alone and take it in somewhere?!
Looks like this:
Anyway over the weekend it got 'toddlered', I'm not sure if it was dropped or what as my wife was in charge, but the plug at the HDD end of the USB cable seems a bit slack now. Since then the PC can't read it, and it chunters and click's away to itself randomly. I've stripped it down (to a point) and have taken the drive part away from the PCB as shown below.
I've not faffed too much with the PCB as I do want to be able to recover the data on there.
So the question is do I pick up a matching HDD cheap from ebay and hope that I can swap my existing drive into the new frame/pcb (are they compatible assuming it's the same model?) - or should I leave well alone and take it in somewhere?!