Change logic board on IBM dead drive

[Designerd]

Hello, help please. I'm a graphic design major college student. My
hard drive (IBM Deskstar 61.4 GB 7200RPM P/N 07N9209 Model:
IC35L060AVVA07-0) just crashed over the weekend. And I lost all my
school works and design files. It's my first time use this forum. Hope
anyone can give me some valuable advice.

My question is what is the best way to revive this type of drive.It
will not spin up now, and can not be detected in the BIOS. I was able
to locate an
identical hard drive. Can I possible revive my hard drive by swaping
the logic board? Have anyone try this with this type of drive before?
Will it cause further damage to the drive?

If that doesn't work. I'm thinking to go to a data recovery company.
Does anyone know any good data recovery company that is trust worthy?
Prefer in Los Angeles or close by coz I don't feel safe to mail my
drive out.

Also, I need to purchase new hard drives. Does anyone know what drives
have the best rating for stability? Please let me know. Thank you very
very much!!

 

[Chris Stolworthy]

Hello, help please. I'm a graphic design major college student. My
hard drive (IBM Deskstar 61.4 GB 7200RPM P/N 07N9209 Model:
IC35L060AVVA07-0) just crashed over the weekend. And I lost all my
school works and design files. It's my first time use this forum. Hope
anyone can give me some valuable advice.

My question is what is the best way to revive this type of drive.It
will not spin up now, and can not be detected in the BIOS. I was able
to locate an
identical hard drive. Can I possible revive my hard drive by swaping
the logic board? Have anyone try this with this type of drive before?
Will it cause further damage to the drive?

If that doesn't work. I'm thinking to go to a data recovery company.
Does anyone know any good data recovery company that is trust worthy?
Prefer in Los Angeles or close by coz I don't feel safe to mail my
drive out.

Also, I need to purchase new hard drives. Does anyone know what drives
have the best rating for stability? Please let me know. Thank you very
very much!!

Well if it won't spin up, it IS possible it is the logic board, however I
would more likely suspect that the motor went out. You can try swapping the
boards but I don't think it would be likely that you could revive the hard
drive this way. You can send your drive to a data recovery business, but it
will be expensive. As far as good drives, I have always used Western
Digital drives and have never had a problem yet, but just in case I still do
regular backups. I would recommend that you seriously think about getting
some kind of backup medium and doing REGULAR backups from now on. The cost
of backing up your data typically is far less than sending your drive to
have the data recovered from it.

-Chris