Dead HDD

[Stoly]

My most recent victim is a 500gb WD, I have a backup for most of it and the rest I can get live without.

Thing is I'd like to take the chance to try to bring it back to life. You never know when you are going to really need it.

The drive won't spin. Apparently the PCB is at fault, as I swapped the pcb with another drive and it started spinning.

I've heard that you can swap the flash memory chip so it can be recognized by the new pcb and make the HDD work.

Also apparently the pcb can be repaired.

Any one know a guide to repair a pcb or swap the firmware?

 

[Stoly]

bump

 

[Stoly]

If anyone has a dead HDD who's pcb is at fault you should check hddguru.com forums. I was able to revive 3 HDDs one of them had been dead for like 10 years.

Electronics knowledge is adviced. at least soldering skills.

 

[gojirasan]

Are you kidding? I went over to that forum to check it out and I have never seen an internet forum like that. It is an internet forum where sharing information is practically verboten. I don't understand the point of that? Why bother with a forum at all? I thought the whole point was to share information. You help other people when you know something and maybe at some point you get help when someone else knows something. That forum is just a bunch of stupid, greedy, idiots. Afraid that if people see how easy certain repairs are they won't get paid their $500/hour rate to fix them. I don't think you will get any real help from those fat cats. The information age is their enemy. It would be nice to find a forum where people freely exchange info about reviving a hard drive but that does not seem to be it.

 

[ghost6303]

how do you figure? ive been to that forum before, plenty of good info there. if you ask really simple idiotic questions without searching or reading any stickies where they have already been answered, people will get annoyed with you, but thats how it is in any forum.

their forum probably gets more of that "idiot" traffic from people who are desperate and just lost a hard drive and spend the next day franticly searching the internet looking for help and post in haste and without reading first. i can sympathise with that. it is annoying.

 

[Old Hippie]

Are you kidding? I went over to that forum to check it out and I have never seen an internet forum like that. It is an internet forum where sharing information is practically verboten. I don't understand the point of that? Why bother with a forum at all? I thought the whole point was to share information. You help other people when you know something and maybe at some point you get help when someone else knows something. That forum is just a bunch of stupid, greedy, idiots. Afraid that if people see how easy certain repairs are they won't get paid their $500/hour rate to fix them. I don't think you will get any real help from those fat cats. The information age is their enemy. It would be nice to find a forum where people freely exchange info about reviving a hard drive but that does not seem to be it.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

I've gotten GREAT info from that forum but like Ghost explained

if you ask really simple idiotic questions without searching or reading any stickies where they have already been answered, people will get annoyed with you,

Give us a link to your question and maybe we can help.