Hard Drive PCB board failure

[EvilHomer]

I was trying to bring my older PC to life and one of my drives was acting loopy. I was recognize the not recognized on my PC. I wanted to back it up bacause it had alot of pictures on it but when I hooked it up to my HD reader nothing happened. I tried reconnecting it back to my PC but the PC woulldn't boot. I am thinking I fried the PCB board when I connected it to my HD reader. Can I replace the pcb board with a similiar or its there much more involved? Is there any hope to back up my pics? the drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB. I see PCB boards for sale but wanted wanted trusted advice for you guys before trying anything. thank you for your help.

 

[Unico]

Personally have never had to do this (plenty of backups) but did the usual google. This fellow’s YouTube walked through the process of researching the PCB and replacing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDv438WXDhw

To find the right board from One PCB Solution, try this search page:

http://www.onepcbsolution.com/seagateguide.html

No personal experience dealing with One PCB Solution, however they do offer mailing addresses for the US and Canada for returned components (Blaine, Wa, and White Rock, BC).

 

[EvilHomer]

Thank you so much for your help. I will give this a tray.

 

[Elixer]

Finding the *exact* PCB is getting to be more difficult, but not impossible.
You just have to make sure all the numbers match up, since, even if a revision is wrong, you will most likely screw up what data there was there.

If the data is really important to you though, send it to the pros, and they can get the data back, but, it will cost a few hundred if not more.