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Change circuit boards on a Seagate ST3320620AS? Any got one?

  • 20-05-2007 9:34pm
    #1
    netrate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Ok, I have a major dilemma here. My seagate SATA hard drive's circuit
    board is toast. There is a black burn mark on it.
    So, I did what anyone would do when they panic, I called DATA RECOVERY
    and of course, it is going to be $450.00+ to recover, plus the cost of
    a hard drive.
    So, now being a person that doesn't have that kind of money lying
    around and very much needing the data on the drive, I unscrewed the
    circuit board and found that it is only burned on the top part - not
    underneath and it looks like it is ok on the actual hard drive part -
    no burn or blemishes. So, would I be right in assuming that if I got
    an identical hard drive and switched circuit boards, I might be able
    to recover this data?
    The hard drive is not even recognized by the computer, so I know it is
    not just a surface blemish, but I am unaware of the technical part of
    the drive except to say that it is something that I would be able to
    do with a screwdriver - just replacing one with the other. Now, it
    sucks because I will be out $100.00, but not out $450.00+.
    Has anyone attempted this? Any success stories or caveats?
    The P/N is 9BJ14G-300 and the firmware is 3.AAC


Comments

  • #2
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    I've heard stories of this working alright. It can be difficult to match up the boards though.


  • #3
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    Happened at work, IDE drives circuit board flamed up and burned itself out,found an identical model and unscrewed old and put on new,its working in a machine at the moment perfectly! Check ebay for an identical drive to harvest the part from...


  • #4
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,401 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    Hi There,

    Yes it does work, I've done it a number of times once on a sea-gate drive and 3 times on western digital Caviar drives and it worked fine...

    I was lucky with the seagate drive, as the machine had 2 identical HD's fitted from new. So i copied all the data off the good HD to a new HD. Then i swapped over the boards and the machine worked fine, it sill working to this day, 4 years later!

    On one of the caviar drives i didn't have an exact match, the broken one was a 60GB, and i only had a board off a 40GB one, but it worked fine, recovered all of the data..

    The problem will be finding a close enough match for the drive... Ebay would be a good option. If you go into some second hand places looking for a Seagate xyz drive they will know your in trouble and try charge you the earth for it ( happened on me once )...


  • #5
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    This worked fine for me with two maxtor drives, but they were identical.


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