replacing damaged PCB on seagate hard drive

[mungopw]

anyone with experience on replacing damaged PCB on hard drives? I have looked around on the web and got a few bits of the puzzle... I have a

seagate barracuda 7200.10

S/N 5QD2247V

ST3750640AS

P/N 9bJ48-300

Firmware: 3.AAC

date code: 0810-5 site code:cs

cso: 0901-4




pcb# 100409233 D 38095676


what i dont know is how much has to match on the donor PCB?

any help is greatly appreciated

[Tic3]

Don't know if this will help, but it might...

http://www.ultratec.co.uk/TechSection/PCBGuide.asp

[mungopw]

thank you for your quick reply Tic3 ive been to the site before but this time I filled out a request form for the PCB im looking for.


EDIT: looks like all i have to match is part number and firmware version

ST3750640AS


P/N 9bJ48-300


Firmware: 3.AAC

[1cooldude]

mung, I know you probably don't want to hear this but I've been through several hdd recoveries and replacing the pcb on hdd is one of the most difficult tasks one can undertake. There are not enough "exact" pcb clones to go around and more than likely if you really want to recover the data you might consider a professional data recovery service. I know it's rather costly but after searching and spending hours reading this was my only conclusion. Good luck. :)

BTW, is your avatar photo of N. Tesla..just curious?

[mungopw]

thank you 1cooldude its more of an exercise than a thrash of futility. ebay is looking promising. yes my avatar is of tesla i prefer the pix of him in his twilight years as one would never guess his accomplishments.http://www.bielek-debunked.com/tesla_old.jpg