I have a Maxtor model 6V300F0, I was changing this hard drive from my old pc to my new one, which has a case with very sharp edges which I accidentally scratched the card that comes with the hard drive, after taking it to a technician he told me that the drive seemed fine, no data loss, no weird sounds or anything but that the card (PCB) was messed up and to buy a new one. I looked in ebay and was able to find the standard card.

I noticed that the hard drive says refurbished to Maxtor Specifications (2), here's my confusion... If I buy a standard pcb for this model will it work??? or does that Specifications (2) means that the drive's card/pcb is totally different.

Please help! I need to recover those files...

it says Model: 6V300F0
CODE: va111680

Main Chip Agere 040128000

If the drive is fine, why not just purchase a new hard drive and transfer the data? You'll be out about the same amount of money and not have to deal with the hassle of swapping the board and crossing your fingers.

The drive is fine but I cannot access any information... it gives me an error... at the POST... drive failure... or something like that... the technician says it's the pcb, that needs to be replaced, I think I have no other choice but to buy the pcb and hope it works, the tech told me that it has to match the same frequency and volts or somethink like that...

If the technician is so confident that the data is ok he must have replaced the PCB and seen it, correct?

If so, why don't you ask him to borrow it?

I am suspecting that he is just guessing what state the drive is in, if he really knew anything for sure I would have thought he would have backed up your data for you - maybe he doesn't like you!

These data are all non-important.

You should match the 4 letter code this way: M,x,x,M
(M: match, x: not important)

And you need to match the 5 letter PCB code wich looks like this: XNXVX
(X: letter, N: number, V: V exactly )

If you match this, your drivel will work again, if the heads are not damaged by the "accident".
Anyway, i suggest to borrow the new pcb, get all what you need, and drop the drive away....

(if the drive with this matching pcb will do grinding or clicking noise, stop it immediately, or you will ruin your data forever in 5-10 seconds!)

Janos