Phylidonyris Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Hello fellow hackers I need a Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 160GB SATA (HTS541616J9SA00) made in Thailand (VERY IMPORTANT!) around Marts 2007 (VERY IMPORTANT!) so I can "repair" my friend's broken harddrive, which he uses in his laptop. Can you help me? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messsy Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 your joking, i had 1 in my dell studio but it went in the bin after i cut it to 1000 peices,, i would have given it to u but my temper got the better of me sowwy :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phylidonyris Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 You must be kidding? xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 http://www.google.com/products?q=HTS541616J9SA00&hl=en Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyzon Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 by repair, do you mean replacing the hard disk platters? or just replace it. if you just wana replace, any sata 2.5" drive would do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshan Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I'm assuming he would just need the board, since that's the only thing he would be able to repair on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiyed14 Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 All I can say to you sir is, Good Luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Unless you're trying to recover the keys to the universe (or something equally as important) I'd just replace the drive. it's a lot of time, effort and energy to try to repair a drive which no longer works and it's not even close to guaranteed that it'll work. Next time, tell him to keep backups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messsy Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 honestly bro. yes if they use an automated image backup (like acronis) then it would be much easyer to restore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phylidonyris Posted March 12, 2009 Author Share Posted March 12, 2009 #8 Yeah. I'm aware of that. But the problem is that he need some work related pictures .. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 .. personally it sounds to me to be a waste of time... how much is he paying for this? if it was under 300, I wouldnt do it.. actually I would want more. Even if you found another of the same hard drive, you would need to make sure that A. The chips are the same, and B. That it was made relatively at the same time and/or factory to even fathom it to work. THEN you would need a clean room/special tools/ALOT OF PATIENCE AND TIME, and that STILL doesnt mean it would work.... Hard drives are actually low level calibrated and formatted @ the factory. This is something you cannot do. The chips inside that exact drive know the structure of the drive and calibration, and nothing else. And that calibration and structure can be totally different from even the next hard drive off the production line. btw, regular low level formatting is not the same as @ the hard drive factory. Because @ the factory it is done via a machine that formats the platters and at the same time hardflashes the chips for those platters. When you 'LOW LEVEL FORMAT' a drive, all the os does is tell the hard drive's chips to do so, and it does a not so low level format, but does the job most of the time. You would have to know about the surface of the hard drive/vs speed and distance to know what I am talking about. more here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting So in short, unless you have a machine that you can manually suck the info out of the chips that are on that drive now, it's not going to work, because when you got it back together, with another drive's firmware, you would most probably either see nothing but disk drive calibration errors OR no data on the hard drive would be shown, and it would be as if the data never existed. But the problem is that he need some work related pictures .. wink.gif sounds like you friend gets: EPIC HARD DRIVE BACKUP FAIL!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will-wtf Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Happy hunting, as well as the all the above, it will also need the same firmware... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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