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Dad's HDD is toast :(

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UlricT

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Looks like some huge powersurge went through my house, which burned out a lot of things, and one of those things happened to be a comp. I had built back home about 4 years ago. (I AM a rambler.. ain't I?)All the components connected directly to the PSU seems to have been fried... and the HDD has a lot of company emails and all...

the tech. guy back home (seemed ok the 3 times I have talked to him) claims that the HDD can be recovered if the board behind it is changed... let me just quote the email my dad sent me.

Therefore prime importance is to recover data (this was used as main storage of fin.data and my pics.)on HDD which can only be done if there is a card (fixed on backside of HDD and integral part thereof) available.
The data below is taken from the HDD labels:
20.0 GB AT Fireball Lct 15 (3.5" Series)(Power Req. 5/12 V---600/900mA)
Quantum Part Number QML2000LC-A
Interim Descriptor
P/N SG-012345-12547-09D-150K
REV.A00

The whole card is required as only one chip (Panasonic AN8428NGAK 036Nxx4U(thexx cannot be read-burned)) is seen as burned out but most probably some others have gone too. Can you help source such a card for the HDD ?? URGENT
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Long winded... I know, but I would be glad if any of you guys have any constuctive comments... 🙂
 
If you can obtain such a board, it could work. Probably the best way is to shop for a used drive of that model and have it cannibalized. The drive itself does not have to opened up - so no clean room is necessary.
 
This may work - but you need to make sure that the drive with the new board is of exactly the same model, capacity and firmware version.

There are no guarantees that this will work - as the internal mechanism of the drive may be damaged. But there are a number of success stories with this technique.

If you data is important, but you can risk losing it, then go ahead. If you cannot risk losing the data whatever the cost, then you should contact a professional data recovery company for advice (e.g. www.ontrack.com, www.drivesavers.com) - note that professional data recovery can cost many thousands of $.
 
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