Hi all.
I´m looking for a Hitachi Harddrive:
Model HDS728080PLAT20
Revision 0A30362
It´s a 80 GB harddrive.
I need to recover all my family pictures from an old harddrive that had a "melt down".
Hope someone can help me.

What happened? What symptoms does it show? What tests did you run? Have you diagnosed the problem yet? How skilled are you? How important are the pictures?

What do you need. Heads or PCB?

What exactly do you intend doing with the donor drive?

PCB swap? It won't work. Specialist tools required for NVRAM manipulation.

Platter swap? Almost certainly unnecessary and 99.9% going to be unsuccessful.

Head swap? Do you have clean room and necessary tools and skills? Hitachi heads are particularly sensitive.

I suggest you find out exactly what the problem is.

Where are u based? Maybe we can point you in the right direction.

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Well as I wrote earlier it is burnt. When I connected it to the power surply, there came a small bit of smoke and then it just didnt work anymore. Tried to buy an eksternal harddrive "box" to see if it would work there, but without any luck. So I hoped that it might be possible to swap the cirkutbord from a doner harddrive to the old, to fix it. Had heard that some others had tried to do it with succes. Worth taking a chance I thought as it already is dead.
I´m living in Denmark, so if any of you knows anyone here, that is a guru at this, it would be much apriciated!!!
The pictures on the harddrive is VERY important to me, so I will do almost anything to get them back!!!!!!!

Thanks for letting us know a 'melt down' means a burnt PCB.

If the pictures are that important, you should send your drive to a professional. Anything you attempt runs the risk of doing damage.

Agree.

You will NOT be able to do a simple PCB swap on this particualar model. If it was a Maxtor DM9 or something like that, then yes we could advise you how to do it.

If you're willing to send the drive to UK, then I can help.

PM me if interested.

Sean

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