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Hard drive circuit board

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sswingle

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So I had a HDD circuit board literally burn up tonight. The 4 power connector burnt and that half of the circuit board is black.

Had MOST stuff backed up but of course started looking at everything and a few important items were not backed up.

SO, what is the likelyhood that I can take the circuit board from an identical drive and swap them?
 
sswingle said:
So I had a HDD circuit board literally burn up tonight. The 4 power connector burnt and that half of the circuit board is black.

Had MOST stuff backed up but of course started looking at everything and a few important items were not backed up.

SO, what is the likelyhood that I can take the circuit board from an identical drive and swap them?
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Good question. Try it. Assuming the problem that fried yours there is isolated to the PCB, the worst that should happen is it just not working in the failed drive.

If you have such another like drive, it's definitely worth a shot. I've done it in the past, but I don't think it's fair to compare such things, with several-year gaps in between doing it.
 
I've done it before, but sometimes it can be VERY picky about the revision of the board.

As in I had drives that were manufactured 2 months apart and it didn't work, but found another drive that was even closer and it did work.
 
Give it a try, some times it work, some times it don't.
Your best bet is to get an exact match of the revision board, anything else is a crap-shot.
 
And, that is worth a try. But also consider that what ever caused the Integrated Drive Electronics board to burn up could still exist in the mechanical section of the drive and cause the same thing to happen with the replacement board. BTW, is it a PATA or SATA drive insofar as connection mode is concerned?
 
corkyg said:
And, that is worth a try. But also consider that what ever caused the Integrated Drive Electronics board to burn up could still exist in the mechanical section of the drive and cause the same thing to happen with the replacement board. BTW, is it a PATA or SATA drive insofar as connection mode is concerned?
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SATA
 
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