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Self repairs

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Aerobahn

Limp Gawd
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hi everyone.

I upgraded someones hard drive and while we were there everything was working with both plugged in.

He then for some reason wanted to only boot up from his old hard drive. So he went on his own ( i was not there ) and switched the cables and power cables. he turned it on and he smelled burning and turned it off right away.

now the bios wont recognize that it even exsists and will hang when dectecting ide devies.

I assume it was shorted out for what ever reason ,is there any way I could fix it myself? im fairly competent with electronics and soldering, ect.

If i send it to the only company in the boston area for data recovery they want $400 minimum. $200 just to look at it to tell me if it is even fixable and that $200 is non refundable.

I think its a little steep. Am I right or are the prices fair

Are there any guides or any help I can get for a solo repair?

any help will save me time and money thanks all. :)
 
i was gonna say it sounds like he may have plugged the molex in wrong.. but thats next to imposible.. unless he absolutly forced it.. i dont know if the ide data cables carry enought voltage/amprage to cause burn out on any given set of pins... unless it is a direct short, are the cables burnt or the pcb on the drive??? and if its the drive get us pics and we may be able to tell you if simple solder work will be able to fix it or not.. if its the cables.. well replace the cables... try again

if its a personal computer and dosnt have any buissness data on it... dont worry about it, chalk it up to experience and get the machine working again.. you can buy a new drive for far less that the cost of data recovery... but.. if it dose have buissness data on it, dont try and solder any thing.if he stands to loose money from down time, then anouther 200-400$ is a drop in the bucket, get it looked at. but if hes only looseing his mighty porn collection... im shure he can rebuild it just as quickly

thore
 
pretty sure it isnt the cables because I tried it myself on 2 other machines.
 
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heres a pic it looks like his PBC is fried. But the whole pcs comes off like it is interchangeable.
 
The whole pcb thing comes out. And it is connected just by touching the other part of the hard drive. If i were to get another pcb from the exact same model it should work right?
 
Aerobahn said:
The whole pcb thing comes out. And it is connected just by touching the other part of the hard drive. If i were to get another pcb from the exact same model it should work right?
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while it may work, i would only use this to get the data off the drive then discontinue useing the disk all together, the one time i tryed this i found that the disk info (bad sectors and such) was stored on the pcb its self (in a prom somewhere) and it wouldnt read certain data becaue thows sectors had been marked as bad on the drive it came off of... even thow they where good on the recieveing disk... now.. given the drive i did this to was a 200mb conner scsi drive and drive have come along way sence then... so that info may be stored on the disk its self now... i say its worth a shot if you can find one... (remeber that you need to find one with the same pcb revision number as well as model numbers)

lots of luck...

thore
 
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