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Tumbleweed36 · 11-21-2006, 11:01 AM

Hi,

A few things here. First of all, don't even attempt to change that circuit board, or they will not honor the drive replacement and you will be buying another new hard drive. I would bet you have to send the old one in for them to validate you had a bad drive. It also could be considered a task that you don't want to undertake without extensive experience working in those type situations.

Second. if the drive won't even boot, you simply won't be able to get data off it unless you send it someplace where they charge an arm and a leg to do that. That too would invalidate any return of the drive to the company that is going to replace it for you. Seems like you are out of luck on both.

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Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,462 OS: XP Professional	Hi, A few things here. First of all, don't even attempt to change that circuit board, or they will not honor the drive replacement and you will be buying another new hard drive. I would bet you have to send the old one in for them to validate you had a bad drive. It also could be considered a task that you don't want to undertake without extensive experience working in those type situations. Second. if the drive won't even boot, you simply won't be able to get data off it unless you send it someplace where they charge an arm and a leg to do that. That too would invalidate any return of the drive to the company that is going to replace it for you. Seems like you are out of luck on both. __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread.