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recover hard drive without the original PCB?

September 11th, 2014, 5:11

Hello,
I have a problem with the recovery of my hard drive. One month ago, my PC hard drive didn't detect any more suddenly. The hard drive is Seagate Barracuda 7200.12.
I gave it to a company for data recovery. Unfortunately, they returned the hard drive to me with a wrong PCB. It seems that they have lost the original PCB.
Is there any way to recover the hard drive data without the original PCB ?
Please help me.

Re: recover hard drive without the original PCB?

September 11th, 2014, 5:39

Possibly yes, but EXTREMELY difficult.

Expect to pay $2000-$3000 or more

Re: recover hard drive without the original PCB?

September 11th, 2014, 5:50

pcimage wrote:Possibly yes, but EXTREMELY difficult.

Expect to pay $2000-$3000 or more


Is there any need to a special hardware for doing that? For example, can PC-3000 recover the data without the original PCB?
Thank you

Re: recover hard drive without the original PCB?

September 11th, 2014, 5:53

PC3K is not helpfull if you have not original PCB

Re: recover hard drive without the original PCB?

September 11th, 2014, 6:27

In ROM has native serial number of HDD and PCB
Let looking, reading all the chips on the programmer.

Re: recover hard drive without the original PCB?

September 11th, 2014, 12:26

There are not much people that are able to rebuild F3 rom from lost pcb.
I know only few guys on this forum that know how to rebuild F3 rom from 'zero'

Contact: dmarques or Peter Magyar (pepe)
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Re: recover hard drive without the original PCB?

September 12th, 2014, 3:28

We do it also, but the price range is what pcimage said.

Re: recover hard drive without the original PCB?

September 12th, 2014, 5:34

ok now i know that also nortwind is able to rebuild F3 rom

Re: recover hard drive without the original PCB?

September 12th, 2014, 6:35

We should open a new thread and report all pro that are able to recover lost F3 rom
:lol:
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