My mother-in-law asked me to recover some data from her old hard drive.
It’s a WD Caviar Blue SATA Hard Drive 500 GB.
When connecting it the drive spins up but nothing is detected, so I’m guessing the controller is gone. Is there a generic controller I can buy to test that out?
The drive is gone if I do nothing, so I might as well try to get the data off of it (and get brownie points with my mother-in-law).
Hello,
Replacing the controller card on a hard drive is not a recommended method for recovering data or drive functions. There are many firmware changes that would make it very difficult to find a controller card with the same firmware of the defective drive. Replacing the controller card may damage the hard drive further. If you need to recover the data on your drive, please contact one of our recommended preferred data recovery partners.
The controller would be $20ish, whereas data recovery is $100’s.
The data is worth $20, not $100+.
