HP97 The journey begins

[ijabbott]

(08-25-2019 02:10 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  

(08-25-2019 01:45 PM)ijabbott Wrote:  Of course, if you attempt to do that and fail (which is highly likely), most data recovery companies won't touch it with a barge pole!

True enough, but I assume anyone willing to pay those prices for what would obviously then be valuable data, would not attempt options like suggested above, that is strictly for DIY-ers. I only mention it as most folks are not aware of this option and end up tossing out drives and data than can be recovered relatively cheaply.

Well I wouldn't attempt it on any modern drive either. And by "modern" I mean about 2000 onwards. That's mainly because there is non-volatile memory chip on the PCB that is tied to the drive, containing the "adaptive data" for the drive. So you would need to transfer that chip from the old PCB to the donor.