Damaged Hard Drive: Possible To Repair?

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Damaged Hard Drive: Possible To Repair?

#1 Fayko9

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Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:51 PM

Hello guys please look at the following and tell me if it is possible to get the data off of it and if the drive is salvageable.
http://i49.tinypic.com/25zkzmd.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/n3u635.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/21mdqvt.jpg

I don't really care if the drive is not salvageable but I atleast need to try to get the data.

Broken sata cables and not seeing it FTW

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Posted 26 February 2013 - 05:39 AM

Hi and welcome to the forums. Man, that thing looks fried. I don't think there is any way top clean up the connectors enough to do what you would like to do. There are some places that are pretty pricey that do that kind of thing, but in this case I don't know if they can with this drive.

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Posted 26 February 2013 - 06:56 AM

Ouch. I think your best bet is to buy another identical drive on ebay, and use the circuit board from that on the fried drive.

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#4 Fayko9

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Posted 26 February 2013 - 08:46 AM

I was worried that might be the only option. what is the 4 pinned plugin show on the right in this pic?

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Posted 26 February 2013 - 09:02 AM

See this: http://superuser.com...-doesnt-it-exis It looks like they're enabling some options with the hard drive.The only alternative here would be to send the drive to a data recovery service, which is really expensive - I suggest using that as a last resort. What happened here, a power surge or fire?

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Posted 26 February 2013 - 07:54 PM

LiveBrianD, on 26 February 2013 - 09:02 AM, said:

A broken power connector from my old PSU I didn't notice it and plug it into this drive and poof, white magic smoke.

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Posted 26 February 2013 - 08:43 PM

Ouch. Perhaps you were sending the wrong voltages in the wrong lines that way, or something shorted? I wouldn't be surprised if you have a decent chance of recovery by replacing the circuit board in the drive though.

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Posted 27 February 2013 - 12:48 AM

LiveBrianD, on 26 February 2013 - 08:43 PM, said:

I think i bridged the connection =/ I have to try and find a copy of my drive it's gonna be a bitch though i don't think they make them anymore =/

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Posted 17 May 2013 - 10:53 PM

Repair if it contains valuable data that worth a lot otherwise buying a new one is the best idea. :rolleyes:

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Posted 19 May 2013 - 11:21 AM

LiveBrianD, on 26 February 2013 - 06:56 AM, said:

Ouch. I think your best bet is to buy another identical drive on ebay, and use the circuit board from that on the fried drive.

Good thinking and he would save his data.

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 01:49 PM

I cannot see the images. Nonetheless, if you have a broken SATA socket, you can simply replace the PCB board. I had a different issue recently, where the hard drive would not even power up, a total brick. So I just guessed that replacing the PCB board might work and it did! In your case..if you know what the problem is, just the SATA socket, then a new PCB board should work. I got mine here: http://www.onepcbsolution.com/

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Posted 16 June 2013 - 02:35 PM

Stargazer3258, on 15 June 2013 - 01:49 PM, said:

Thanks for that link Stargazer! I was going to say the PCB need to be the same firmware revision as stated on the burnt PCB board but it looks like these guys take care of that. Hopefully the motor inside isn't fried too.

Otherwise I agree a recovery service will almost certainly be able to recover the data on the drive IF you don't mind paying $800 to a few grand.

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