Barracdu 7200.8 Bios burned

[natron]

Hi Guys,
surry, but I'm not a technical specialist like most of you, but I'm looking serously for help.
The situation:
Last Monday, my PC "stopped" working, because of HDD failure.
A closer look to the piece, its a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8, 250 GB, the PC board had a burning mark on one of the chips. A technican told me later, it's the bios.

I left it there, they tried to replace the bios - without any result.
A second company phoned me this mornig with the same result ("Please come and pick-up your rubbish") .

Now this piece is lying here in front of me and I'm looking for any kind of help, which I can submit to the local technicans.

The data on is only private stuff, photos and old VAT-Tax files, a music database etc.
But I would like to geteven this back - if possible.

Any help is welcome.

kind regards from Windhoek/Namibia
Achim

[scratchy]

Based in Africa, I would only recommend www.imperative.co.za

They are in South Africa,

<itch>

[hddguy]

Based in Africa, I would only recommend http://www.imperative.co.za

<itch>

I have heard good things about this company, definatley would use them if i was based in africa

[natron]

I just received two quotations from similar companies - uff, both ask plusminus 5000 Rand.
So I just wrote an email to imperative, let's see.

Thanks for the moment
Achim

[BlackST]

'bios'... Definition of the week. Sure it is the ROM?

[natron]

I'm sure, he said BIOS, the technical guy explained me something with eprom, where the starting sectors of the partitions are "burned" in. And, he said, that's why the drive looks dead.
Sorry, but I'm not a technic freak, but I'm still looking for a solution to manage this problem locally.

Achim

[BlackST]

Ask another.

[rameez]

Can u post more information on your drive like model number , fw no etc.
Can u see anything burned on the pcb ?