[dhs12345]

Wow. That’s cool. I bet that that is what they do when you pay someone to recover a hard drive (or the FBI does it).

Usually the firmware is different and it is tuned to the drive that it is mounted on.

However, the way they double capacity is to simply stack more more platters in the drive. So it makes sense that it would work.

I’ll have to remember that.

[AppyPappy]

I had a person do a complete format and re-install of Windows then turn to me and ask “Where are my files?”. I figured if they were smart enough to do that, they should know the answer.

The way to recover a hard drive is from the backup

[Paladin2]

"I bet that that is what they do when you pay someone to recover a hard drive"

Depends. It wouldn't even spin up no matter what I did before the board swap, so I bought a used drive at a computer store that was big on parting out older computers.

[dennisw]

Wow. That’s cool. I bet that that is what they do when you pay someone to recover a hard drive (or the FBI does it).

Not all the time but my guess is hard drive recovery companies have an inventory of logic boards that they simply swap onto the failed hard drive. Then retrieve the data from it for the customer. The usual is that the logic boards fail before the spinning platters do.

More on these swaps>>>> http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-word-of-warning-on-hard-disk-recovery-by-swapping-logic-boards/#!