So, fried my drive and probably overpaid for donor.

[TaylorofCanada]

Please, have a look at this and you'll get what happened. Power surge, fried board, etc... Went out and bought one with an identical board (ALL the numbers matched), or really a whole harddrive, and tried to swap, realizing that the CPU EEPROM and RAM are different.

Check out this flikr set, http://www.flickr.com/photos/48264538@N ... 102425887/
or more specifically
This full composite: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48264538@N ... 102425887/

What must I do now? (cry?)


Thanks! Taylor

[TaylorofCanada]

Hmm.. Anyway I could flash this myself? I think I killed my old board's EEPROM. Calisse! as they say here.

What to do..

[harddrivespecialist]

If you really have killed ROM chip, its still fixable. You just have to add another 0 to price you paid for new drive, send it to pro and they will help you.
I don't mean to be so harsh, but this is only way you can get your data back.

[hddguy]

What must I do now? (cry?)

Accept the fact that you have made the situation worse, and evaluate the importance of your data. If important, send to a professional who is experienced in Hard Disk repairs.

If data is not important then toss the drive and take this is a learning experience.

[jono-ats]

Drives with damage as shown in your "Chernobyl" photo often have bad preamps, too.

Putting a bad board on a good drive can kill the preamp. If a board gets hot in the same area of your damage, it's definitely bad and probably the preamp is also toast.

Jono