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Harddrive problems

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Kaffeman

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Hi
I have a bit of a problem with a harddrive that I THINK has a fried circuit-board.
I had it in an external HDD case hooked up to the router when the power adapter gave in and stopped working. I bought a new adapter and hooked it up but instead of working the LED on the adapter just blinked and it started to smell of hot components from the HDD. The adapter had the same specifications as the broken one.

I KNOW that the drive was working prior to that because I had it connected to a HDD dock via USB and it worked fine. Now it wont even start up if I hook it in via the dock.

I bought a used HDD from the same manufacturer (Samsung) since the circuit-board has the same markings on it. The size of the drive isn't identical but the model number and revision of the board is.

My thought was that I could switch out the non working board with the new one. I did and the drive starts now but windows doesn't find it. Moving it back to the used drive I bought it starts up fine so the board is working.

My question to you all is this.
Is it at all possible to do this or am I attacking this problem in the wrong way?
Could it really be something inside the drive that's fried also?
Is there anything else to do except sending it to a firm for recovery or throwing it away?

There is nothing really, really important on it but it contains a few years of pictures and I would really like to get them back.
 
The circuit board needs to be from an exact identical copy of the hard drive with the same firmware version.

Yeah that's pretty much the only thing you could try before sending it out.
 
Sigh
Have to try and find one exact match then. Might be hard since it's just 400 GB and a few years old.

Thank you for your reply though
 
Kaffeman said:
Is it possible to flash in the older firmware on the newer board perhaps?
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Who knows?

If your data on that drive is so important check on drive recovery places.

Last time I heard they started @ 1000 dollars.
 
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