Hello all,

I have an Hitachi 2.5" IDE drive that is dead. The drive doesn't spin up when I attach it to the PC3000 or the Deepspar.

It is a HTS541212H9AT00 120GB MLC: DA1628.

I have trawled the usual sites looking for a donor drive, but cannot find one anywhere.

I haven't worked with one of these before, so have attached a couple of pictures of the PCB. Does anyone know if there is a fuse or TVS chip that I can remove/replace to get this working?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Kind regards,

Mark

I think i can supply a hdd is seem with your bad hdd,but I am in China and i Do not know if you can buy it ? but i can ship it

Check the fuse "F1" top right of first pic.

If that is OK then you need a new PCB, and move the NVRAM.

I almost certainly have a suitable PCB for this, PM me if interested.

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Just to add to what has already been said, there appears to be no TVS diode (D8 is vacant). There is also a zero-ohm resistor below F1 that would be worth checking.

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Hello,

Thanks for the pointers. The fuse at F1 had blown, so I have ran some fuse wire across it to complete the circuit. The drive powers up and I am able to image it.

Next problem - Head 1 is faulty. I have imaged 75% of the drive using heads 0, 2 & 3, but head 1 will not read anything.

Has anyone got spares for this so I can swap the heads out? I can't find any on the usual donor sites.

Cheers,

Mark