I took some photos to show you how its done. Some aren't that good as I'm
not a photographer.
http://home.austin.rr.com/mchp/hardware

Good luck.

lorraine wrote in message
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Mark...

I trust this guy. You walk into the shop and you think "Oh my...what a
mess." And his appearance is questionable at best. He looks like he's
still
living the 70's ....LOL...but he knows his stuff. I've been taking stuff
to
him for probably 10 years and he's never steered me wrong.

Thanks for the info and the heads up though. It makes you wonder why one
place has this drive for 89 refurb and another one for 45 though.

Lorraine

Lorraine
"Mark F." wrote in message
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lorraine wrote in message
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I have heard of people recovering data from dead drives by swapping
the
controller of the bad drive with one from an "exact" make and model
drive
that is in good working condition

Why do you say "exact" in quotes?


The guy at the local computer repair place wants to try and do exactly
that
on my mother in laws hard drive to try and retrieve her data. She
wants
it
pretty badly as there are 10 years of family business files on it.
So...I'm
searching for an exact duplicate of her hard drive which is a Seagate
ST310212A. Unless of course it doesn't have to be "exact"???

Sorry to hear that. The price of not backing up regularly.

I quoted exact because you can't simply swap parts from any drive to get
a
bad one to work. To swap the board, assuming the controller is bad, you
need
one from a Seagate Model ST310212A (old 10.2GB EIDE) hard drive. Make
sure
the guy at the local computer repair place knows how to work on drives.
I
requires careful removal and replacement. This trick does not always
ensure
that you can startup the drive long enough to retreive the data. The
motor
can fail, the read/write head can be damaged (etc., etc.,).

Doing a simple search I found:
New-


http://www.4cheapparts.com/cgi-bin/c...etworkpSTOg
otoCKIErodST310212A+
Refurb-
http://www.hd4less.com/seagu1010uat1.html
Technical Support-
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/ata/st310212a.html
Here's one for $45.00-


http://www.nextag.com/Seagate_10_2GB...12azmain z2-h
tm
also click on the $65.00 link on this page which pops up a email form.

Best of luck.




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