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HDD controller may have died, replaceable?

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BloodyIron

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I have a Seagate ST3500320AS, and it just suddenly failed. The SATA controller on my mobo eventually stops trying to initialize it and gives up. I don't hear any clicking whatsoever, so I suspect the circuitboard controller on the drive may be fucked.

Is it replaceable and if so, what are my options?
 
I've done a successful board swap on a bad drive before. If you find the exact same drive and swap the boards you *Might* have a chance at recovering the data. There are absolutely no guarantees. I would just restore from my backup to a new drive.
 
BloodyIron said:
I have a Seagate ST3500320AS, and it just suddenly failed. The SATA controller on my mobo eventually stops trying to initialize it and gives up. I don't hear any clicking whatsoever, so I suspect the circuitboard controller on the drive may be fucked.

Is it replaceable and if so, what are my options?
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MBR might have gone kaput on it. See if you can recover any of the data with a program like GetDataBack (it will skip the standard drive initialization and go straight to rebuilding the partition contents)
 
BloodyIron said:
I have a Seagate ST3500320AS, and it just suddenly failed. The SATA controller on my mobo eventually stops trying to initialize it and gives up. I don't hear any clicking whatsoever, so I suspect the circuitboard controller on the drive may be fucked.

Is it replaceable and if so, what are my options?
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If it does not spin up no program will help you. If it does spin up I would use ddrescue to make a bit for bit copy of the readable sectors to a new disk of the same or larger size. After the ddrescue you can try recovery on the new drive.
 
Worse comes to worse, Sseagate has an in house data recover service. You might inquire about it.
 
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