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will be PMing the participants of this thread in case this post is of interest to them.

A good while back I posted a number of boards I had on hand which I've made available on a quasi-rental basis ...

Although it doesn't address your present predicament, All of us, including myself, are here because we had inadequate backup for our files. Stipulate here that I am a true cheapskate. Based on experi ...

It might. You install GetDataBack with the dead drive disconnected, then shut down your PC, attach the dead drive and reboot. GDB looks for any drives that were not attached when it was installed, and ...

Your symptoms sound the same as I experienced, but mine was a Maxtor drive and that is my sole experience doing a logic board swap. But I think the principles are the same for different manufacturers. ...

I think you are on track. My drive died in similar fashion and a board swap saved my butt.

I don't have a drive with the right board. Here is my suggestion:

Go to eBay and find used drives simi ...

I'm far from an expert, but I have a bit of experience and will share my thoughts. First of all, have a reliable drive or storage medium ready and fired up and copy the critical data immediately if t ...

Its a little unclear to me what you are experiencing.

Its sounds like when you plug the dead drive into your tower you are unable to start up the tower, and that when its plugged into the IDE port ...

I suffered a drive failure well over a year ago, and made a nearly full recovery with assistance from this board doing a logic board swap and recovery software called GetDataBack from Runtime.org (no ...

I suffered a drive failure well over a year ago, and made a nearly full recovery with assistance from this board doing a logic board swap and recovery software called GetDataBack from Runtime.org (no ...

I sent my 8.01 board to a guy in England, who I thought was going to use it and return it. Apparently he is not going to, and is incommunicado. So as of now, I no longer have an 8.01 board available. ...

Your symptoms sound exactly what I experienced with my Maxtor drive a year and a half ago.

I used GetDataBack from runtime.org and recoved nearly every file I wanted. You can download a free trial ...

Although I was working on a Maxtor drive, I had a similar experience, i.e. after swapping logic boards the dead drive started up and was recognized by bios but not by anything else.

It could be th ...

OoRobert is correct that YAR41BW0 is the firmware version. G6FYA off the label on the circuit board side of the drive is the firmware revision number, I believe.

Ideally both match, but matchin ...

"Not working" covers a lot of ground. You are more likely to get a meaningful response if you provide a little more detail, the more the better, such as:

How is it not working? Doesn't spin or sta ...

There are a lot of these drives on eBay. I had about an 80-90% response rate when asking the sellers what code their used drive had. You need to be explicit what info you need, such as " The firmare v ...