I shorted the PCB board on my WD 320GB blue hard drive. I ordered a donor PCB board and was going to swap chips. I however damaged it and some legs pulled off and now it's really messed up. I've read that without that info it won't start. I talked with a recovery company and they said they could probably get the info off of it. It's this possible? And if so how do they do it? The info that's on it is not worth the $1500 they want to charge me. I'd say it's worth $200. Has anyone had any luck recovering data when the bios chip is damaged on a WD hdd?

Any professional data recovery company will be able deal with you missing ROM chip.
But you are the only one who can decide is data is not worth it.

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Can you post a good, high resolution, macro picture of the damaged chip?

I am in Austin and can take a look at it. But we would need to evaluated it first because it might be more than just a board issue. If it is just a board issue it will still be a little more than $200 bucks for the recovery. There is software out there you can by to adapt a new board with the ROM from the original PCB, but that software may be more than what you are willing to pay on a company to do the work for you.

if you are interested let me know

can you share Picture of Hard Drive 320GB is old model Drive most probably ROM Recovery will be possible from SA, 200$ highly doubt any professional company will take this case, may be freelancer with PC3000 or MRT Tool near your place can assist.

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