I have a bunch of old HDDs from my previous PCs. One of them had a couple of pins broken, probably when I tried to put it into a badly designed cradle. So I came up with a DYI project. Bought another 80GB IBM HDD for 8GBP, and replanted the board, which is held by just 4 screws, to the new one. And it worked!
There was nothing valuable on it. I just like messing with hardware sometimes.
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Do I understand right that second one HDD was fully working, but it was killed to make fully working the old one?
Basically, yes 😅
Theoretically I could put the board back, but why would I need empty 80GB IDE drive? 🤷♂️
> why would I need empty 80GB IDE drive?
exactly! why did you bought a donor??
Honestly? Just because I like to tinker with stuff 😅
I did manage to recover some of my photos from 20 years ago. But did I really need them? No 😆