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Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Negley97 on August 09, 2005, 05:08:20 PM

My mom's hard drive crashed and it has a lot of photos and emails and stuff.  I am wondering if by chance any of you have an old Western Digital hard drive I can buy/trade so I can transplant the circuit boards to reboot the drive and pull off the stuff I need.  Here are the specs:

Western Digital Caviar
6.4g IDE
Model: AC26400-00RN
Part Number: AC26400-00RNN1

The model number is the most important.  I need an exact match on that in order to transplant the circuit boards.

I hope someone here has a spare laying around  :anxious:

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Pride on August 10, 2005, 07:26:12 AM

Sorry bro, I have nothing of the sort...

why do you need to transplant the circuit board?  Did that go bad? or the platters?

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Pride on August 10, 2005, 07:28:36 AM

BTW, look for and download Hiren's Boot CD

It will be your new best friend!

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Negley97 on August 10, 2005, 02:45:38 PM

The platters I believe are fine.  My sisters boyfriend a.k.a. "I have a computer at home so I know how to clone drives" mistakenly put a jumper across the wrong pins and I think it short out the circuit board.  When you plug it in and try to turn the computer on the whole computer goes dead.  Remove the drive turn on the computer and it works fine.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Pride on August 11, 2005, 07:19:44 AM

ouch... hmmm

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: The Shoctor on August 11, 2005, 08:38:14 AM

Whats really sad is that I may have one at home. I wish you weren't so far away, I could mostlikely fix this for you. Anyway I will take a look when I get home...


OHHHHHHH YEAH!!!!!! Its a Western Dig! 1 or 2 drives on the chain? What jumpers are set... Western Digs are retarded. If its all by itself on the cable, TAKE OFF the jumper. It doesn't freaking say it ANYWHERE!!!

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Negley97 on August 11, 2005, 06:01:17 PM

Is it the same model number I described above?  There are no jumpers on it now.  No matter where I put the jumper on the drive the computer still won't turn on so something has short out on the drive.   You live in Baltimore?  I love the RR museum there, awesome setup :)

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: The Shoctor on August 12, 2005, 07:28:03 AM

I am sorry don't have it. Thought I did... Have you tried a different machine? Maybe there is one that is more tollerant......
From what I understand, the jumpers don't/can't fry anything if if put on wrong. Cause usually hardward companies don't make things too easy for us to break.

But if it is in its entirety broken. I am sorry.

later.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Biggles on August 14, 2005, 12:19:59 PM

Damn, first line of action, give the guy who broke it a fist on the cheek.

Next line of action, put it in a different PC...you never know.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: VonDouche on August 14, 2005, 01:27:37 PM

agreed, try it out in another pc.  if all else fails bite the bullet and start fresh.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Negley97 on August 15, 2005, 06:42:34 PM

3 pc's all do the same thing :(  I tried that the night it happened.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Czar on September 06, 2005, 03:54:05 PM

I have a IDE to USB adapter that usually allows me to pull info off old drives...might work.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Negley97 on September 07, 2005, 06:21:04 PM

Never heard of it until now.   Does it draw power through USB or through the ide power?

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: The Shoctor on September 07, 2005, 06:55:50 PM

Seperate power supply.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Czar on September 12, 2005, 06:01:47 AM

From what I understand though, the drive needs to actually boot up. So if the HD is dammaged, this method may not work, but I'd be willing to give it a try at least.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: The Shoctor on September 12, 2005, 07:20:38 AM

I think you mean spin up and initialize. It may just be silly nomenclature, but when I hear boot I think of OS.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Czar on September 12, 2005, 12:36:08 PM

Quote from: "ShadoHawk"

I think you mean spin up and initialize. It may just be silly nomenclature, but when I hear boot I think of OS.

True. No its just my ignorance and poor choice of words.  :down:

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Negley97 on September 12, 2005, 05:35:12 PM

It doesn't boot at all, its almost as if the power connector is shorting out.  When I plug the drive in and try to turn on the computer the lights flicker and all power is lost in the computer, nothing works.  As soon as I take the drive out and power the computer on everything works.   Very odd.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Czar on September 13, 2005, 11:57:59 AM

Quote from: "Negley97"

It doesn't boot at all, its almost as if the power connector is shorting out.  When I plug the drive in and try to turn on the computer the lights flicker and all power is lost in the computer, nothing works.  As soon as I take the drive out and power the computer on everything works.   Very odd.

Hm..then it may not work. However, Lemme know and Id be willing to meet up and try out my lil` device on it.

Title: Harddrive...I need a Harddrive
Post by: .:F3ar0n:. on September 13, 2005, 12:25:31 PM

do you still need a hard drive? I have a bunch (3) 8 gb hard drives just sitting around and collecting dust. Your more then welcome to have one. Will you be attending the 50 man lan? If not, pm me with shipping info. I can ship one out to you. If your attending the lan, or will see someone soon who is attending the lan, let me know and I'll bring one. Hope I can  help

It definitly sounds like a short (no fake, I know) Nothings rubbing is it. Usually, if you don't see smoke, your gonna be ok ( I know I'm getting quoted on that statement  :2thumbsup: ) If you get it to run, look up a program called ghost. You can make 1:1 copies of your hd to cd/dvd/ and other hds. It's a nice tool but boots via floppy  :cry:

Let me know

David

F3ar0n

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: The Shoctor on September 13, 2005, 01:00:01 PM

You can also make it boot from a CD. I guess thats a bit more advanced.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: HungOdonkey on October 17, 2005, 04:36:50 PM

I probably have what your looking for.  I just moved back to the area and I have a crapload of 6.4 gig WD harddrives.  I need to dig them out but I would bet I have one you can use unless its some unique drive.

Title: Desperate need of a fairly old hard drive
Post by: Negley97 on January 08, 2006, 11:44:45 AM

Only requirement is the model numbers need to match.