My laptops harddrive had fail. cannot be recognized by any computer's bio (tried it on two different computer).
The drive spins up and there are no weird noise.

What's the chance of replacing the board to see if I can revive it long enough to extract the data off? (of course the best way would be to send it off to professional to extract the data) the data is just photos and video from the pass few months, sort of important, but not important enough to spend a lot of money to get them off. Have read thru google search and about having to pull firmware off current board...... I can do desolder/solder, of course would like to avoid if possible. is it possible to find board that would have same firmware?

Any opinion or experience anyone would like to share? Thanks.

If it spins up OK, then 99% certainly NOT PCB

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thanks for the reply and your professional insight. Don't have extra money right now to send out to repair, luckily it's not something super important, but will for sure get them extracted in the future.

Just wondering, based on your experience and all the similar problems, what's the range in price for gettting the data out? (not asking for a quote here for my drive, just getting a feel on what I might be looking at base on your experience)

Thanks

It's quite probably a firmware corruption triggered by media degradation.

In which case we would normally charge around £350-£400

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