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buy the same drive

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 08, 2005 03:01 AM
Swap the platters out from the dead drive to the good drive, and pray. (If it works, throw them both away.) I've done this once, and it worked. The tough part is to see if the firmwares on the drives matches up. Ebay has "ask seller questions" for a reason I suppose.

--Adrian

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