I occasionally read about people replacing broken parts of a hard drive in order to have it (fully?) function again. I've got some questions regarding doing such things.
1. What parts of a HDD can be (easily) replaced?
2. Do the parts need to come out of an exact same HDD?
3. What tools would you need?
4. How can you determine if the HDD it self is failing or an electronic part of the HDD?
5. Does anyone know of any good websites where they describe how to repair HDDsand/or give information on whatever involves repairing HDDs?
Much obliged -
Raptor