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am i even getting close?
I think you are. However, while looking that up, I came across
this thread in another forum, which you might want to read.
Basically, the posters there are suggesting that for this particular drive it is necessary to install the old ROM on the new board for guaranteed success. That involves some fine soldering work and if you have never done anything of the sort before, that won't end well. According to that thread, you have to get very lucky for the drive to work with another board without the ROM swap.
I can neither confirm nor deny that -- I have done a few board swaps successfully, but all on much older drives than yours. The reasoning for the need to preserve the ROM sounds plausible.
I don't think you can hurt anything by buying one as close to identical as you can find and trying the board swap without touching the ROM -- in the worst case it won't work, you will put the board back on the new drive, still not have your data, but you'd need a replacement drive anyway. I will, however, caution you to not even think about soldering SMT components of this size unless you have experience and appropriate soldering station, and know you can do it. I have soldering experience and still wouldn't want to do that with the tools I have.
If you have more questions about this, you might want to try that forum -- it seems like they deal with this subject on daily basis.
