Toshiba MK1034GAS Hard drive, dead as a dodo...

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Well, the circuit board is, I tried my 30GB's board on it and the drive spins up and the heads move, but with it's original board, nothing, not a peep, I've tried touching up some of the iffy-looking solder joints but still nothing, so, what can I do? I can't find ANY other faulty drives (MK1034GAS comes up with only one result on google!!!) and do a board swap, the guy I bought the drive off claimed that it was still in warranty, but it has a HP product code on it so trying to contact Toshiba or HP would probably get me nowhere. So, do I eBay it or do I try to repair it?

I only paid a fiver for it by the way... :D
 
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2cvbloke said:
I only paid a fiver for it by the way... :D
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Well whilst I am all for DIY and repairing things where they can be repaired economically , even if you found a board the exact same would you really trust storing valuable data on it, for sure I would not..... cut your losses and throw it in the skip.
 
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Well whilst I am all for DIY and repairing things where they can be repaired economically , even if you found a board the exact same would you really trust storing valuable data on it, for sure I would not..... cut your losses and throw it in the skip.
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I'll eBay it then... :D

I never throw any valuable computer parts out, that's where other people make the mistake, what's one mans junk is another's treasure... ;)

Would have been nice to have a 100GB laptop hard drive though for making my own Mini-ITX PVR ...:(
 
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Is that a 100GB laptop drive ?
 
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Is that a 100GB laptop drive ?
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Yes, 100GB... :D

And I double checked it, it's a 1031GAS, not 1034... :-ohmy

Either way, I'll eBay it if I can't get a replacement mainboard... :D
 
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Ah, now if it was the 1034, I could have got you a main board for it ;)
 
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Ah, now if it was the 1034, I could have got you a main board for it ;)
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Ah well, I'm still going to sell it, I need the money pretty badly at the moment cos I've had to stop working again... :(
 
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