I have an Iomega 250gb USB 2.0 external hard drive that I've been using with my laptop. Now the laptop is dead, and I would like to remove the disk from its enclosure to use in the desktop system I'm building. I want to preserve the data on the drive.
I opened the enclosure and inside there's a circuit board attached directly to the disk by some metal rails:
Is it safe to remove this extra circuit board and rails? The drive is labeled as SATA, so will I be able to use it in my system like normal?
It's been a while since I examined a hard drive, so I'm not even sure if the bigger circuit board mounted under the drive is supposed to be there.
Another weird thing: this is a 250GB hard drive. That's what I bought, and it shows up as 250GB in Windows. But the label on the disk says 500GB! Is it possible that the attached circuit is restricting the drive down to 250GB?
I opened the enclosure and inside there's a circuit board attached directly to the disk by some metal rails:
Is it safe to remove this extra circuit board and rails? The drive is labeled as SATA, so will I be able to use it in my system like normal?
It's been a while since I examined a hard drive, so I'm not even sure if the bigger circuit board mounted under the drive is supposed to be there.
Another weird thing: this is a 250GB hard drive. That's what I bought, and it shows up as 250GB in Windows. But the label on the disk says 500GB! Is it possible that the attached circuit is restricting the drive down to 250GB?