Mike,

Take a look on ebay.

You will need the following data off a Maxtor drive to ensure circuit boards
are interchangeable.

PCBA
HDA
Unique

The drive capacity is irrelevant though a size near to 3.2 gig will ensure
that it was manufactured around the same era.

Check on your drive for these numbers and ask sellers what their numbers
are.

It is in fact only the PCBA number that should be identical

This info was given to me by Maxtor following a recent similar experience
(damaged circuit board)

swash


"Mike" wrote in message
. ..
I have a 3.2 gig Maxtor model #83209D5 with a CHS of 6218/16/63 that is
bad. It will not spin up
and is not detected by the computer BIOS. It has valuable data on it

Does anyone have this drive they would want to sell? even one that has
crashed. im hoping by swapping out the
circuit board I can boot up this drive and recover the data off it.

Mike