HD data recovery seagate

[Andre & Liette Levesque]

Hi all

I have a 40gb HD the went bad at the control card. Actually can see the bad
component.

I am looking for dead seagate 40GB Barracuda 7200.7 HD model number
ST340014A which I would use to swap out the card.

If anyone should have one of these HD I would be interested in purchasing it
It would be quite nice if I could recover the data on this HD.



Thanks

 

[Noozer]

I have a 40gb HD the went bad at the control card. Actually can see the
bad

component.

I am looking for dead seagate 40GB Barracuda 7200.7 HD model number
ST340014A which I would use to swap out the card.

If anyone should have one of these HD I would be interested in purchasing it
It would be quite nice if I could recover the data on this HD.

Just to let you know, when a part fails bad enough to be visible, the
failure was most likely elsewhere and it caused the component to burn out.
Things like a bad motor bearing will burn out the driver circuitls. Swapping
boards will just burn it again.

Just something to think about.

 

[Paul Murphy]

purchasing

Just to let you know, when a part fails bad enough to be visible, the
failure was most likely elsewhere and it caused the component to burn out.
Things like a bad motor bearing will burn out the driver circuitls. Swapping
boards will just burn it again.

Not necessarily immediately though - so there would hopefully still be time
to get the data off the drive. Its definitely worth a try if the data is
valuable because the next option (going to a data recovery specialist) will
likely cost megabucks. Even buying a good working one of these drives,
swapping the PCB out to resurrect the dead drive/copy the data and then
swapping it back again when finished would be better than the alternative.

Paul

 

[Minnie Bannister]

I asked a similar question about a Quantum drive years ago and was told
that a certain amount of "twiddling" may be done with the drive's
firmware (on the controller board) to compensate for variations in
components that are inside the sealed compartment (such as head
amplifiers?).

IOW, even if it's only the controller board that's defective, it may not
be possible to accomplish anything by swapping boards.

Whether this was true only for Quamntum dives, I don't know. I got the
impression that this could be true for any manufacturer.

MB

 

[Michael Culley]

I asked a similar question about a Quantum drive years ago and was told
that a certain amount of "twiddling" may be done with the drive's
firmware (on the controller board) to compensate for variations in
components that are inside the sealed compartment (such as head
amplifiers?).

IOW, even if it's only the controller board that's defective, it may not
be possible to accomplish anything by swapping boards.

Whether this was true only for Quamntum dives, I don't know. I got the
impression that this could be true for any manufacturer.

I've heard reports of it working, even on drives of different sizes.

 

[Paul Murphy]

The OP has little to loose by trying this - if it doesn't work then the PCB
can always be reattached to the original working drive - the use of ESD
precautions such as a wrist strap and grounding mat (to prevent damage from
static electricity) would be essential though.

Paul