RobinK
join:2004-04-16
Canada
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Re: Attempt to repair burnt drive myself?
Warzau, Can you tell me how hard you hit it or twisted it?
So far light twists and taps have not helped. I do not want to break the drive, so what did you use and how hard? And did you attempt this while it was powered (I am guessing nor).
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Barbara Ann
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join:2000-10-17
| I fried my controller card (circuit board) as well on my Seagate.
I called Seagate and they told me to try to find the exact same P/N and the exact same FIRMWARE revision.
I was directed to a company in the UK »www.ultratec.co.uk , ordered the part and when it arrived, I hooked up the drive to an external HD enclosure and it worked.
I had previously ordered the same HD from a different company and exchanged the circuit board with the damaged one but because it was a different firmware revision the HD wouldn't work.
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Tursiops_G
Technoid
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said by RobinK  :Warzau, Can you tell me how hard you hit it or twisted it? So far light twists and taps have not helped. I do not want to break the drive, so what did you use and how hard? And did you attempt this while it was powered (I am guessing nor). therobin;
Try Disconnecting and Removing the failed HD entirely, and (with the Refurbished drive's PCB installed on it), hold it Flatly and Securely in your hand, and give it a couple of SUDDEN, SHARP, Twists with your Wrist...
The point is to make either the HD's Platters move Rotationally (or cause the R/W Head Actuator to move Radially), enough to break the R/W Head's "Stiction" hold on the Platters... Then re-install it, and see if it now spins-up, and is recognized...
If so, then IMMEDIATELY BACKUP your Data to CDR/DVDR, or to the other New HD...
Good Luck!
-Tursiops_G.
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