Need Fujitsu MHK2060AT 6GB 2,5“ IDE as donor - anyone out there in europe?

[Christian Vogl]

Hi, i’ll need an Fujitsu MHK2060AT 6GB 2,5“ IDE

do someone have such old shit out there?

 

[pbzcbf...@gmail.com]

Please don't laugh if this idea is stupid, but if there are multiple platters and only one head is bad (not crashed), would it be possible to image the drive by switching off the bad head, then interchanging the platters, modifying the head map, and then imaging the remaining head?

[Christian Vogl]

there is only one platter - BUT! - that thing i have to try on others - in my head it can work :D

[Christian Vogl]

and i already have 3 donordrives from some collegues :)

[Desert Data Recovery]

I have never tried it, but i suspect it wont work due to servo markers being different. 

On Thu, Jan 8, 2026, 12:16 PM pbzcbf...@gmail.com <pbzcbf...@gmail.com> wrote:

Please don't laugh if this idea is stupid, but if there are multiple platters and only one head is bad (not crashed), would it be possible to image the drive by switching off the bad head, then interchanging the platters, modifying the head map, and then imaging the remaining head?

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[pbzcbf...@gmail.com]

I think @pepe at HDD Guru did something like this when working on a head crash. I think his purpose was to move the damaged surface to an accessible position, but he didn't do much explaining.

[Desert Data Recovery]

I would have thought it would mess up the defect list?

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[wayne horner]

I may be completely wrong but ....

I think that when the head seeks to a position they estimate how much force and speed to apply to get there. So for a large seek they launch the head over hundreds of tracks. They can't read the servo at each intervening track.... So it's a guess to launch the heads. When it gets there it then reads the servo wherever it lands and then corrects the position. This means the servo tells them the real head cyl and sector and platter. So platter 3 in platter 1 position will never work. You would only need 4 bits to label 16 platters and only 1 per cylinder, the storage cost is minor. I envision it as launching a mortar followed by micro stepping.

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[pbzcbf...@gmail.com]

Then what is the purpose of the head map?

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yeah I guess that could work

lets say you have a drive with 2 platters heads 0 1 2 3

head 3 is dead

you image 0 1 2

the head map maps the physical to the logical

so swapp platters 

change head map to 2 3 0 0

that may work

hitachi's often have weird head maps

like that with 3 2 1 0 ff ff ff

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