Toshiba MQ01UBD100

[caffeinated]

Good afternoon.

Looking for some guidance on potentially recovering a Toshiba MQ01UBD100 drive on a G003296A PCB.

I'm not a professional, or even experienced amateur. Sure if one of your typical "I have a standard working SATA drive inside and then a small amount of broken electronics for the USB connection" situations I'll remove it and connect it and recover, but that's not the case with these.

I'm HOPING it's a PCB problem, PCB light comes on, then flashes, then stops. No spinning or power up of the actual spinny drive.

I'm not experienced enough to 'fiddle' with it too much, so only looking for advice on the chances of it being a PCB rather than drive issue, and if so if anyone has any recommendations for a board replacement and firmware transfer service. I'm from Australia if that assists.

Apologies for the newbie question, but at least I'm not posting a 'so I pulled it fully apart without knowing what I'm doing' thread, so that's something I guess.

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Firstly, check the connections to the USB socket, maybe they're damaged.

If not then you'll need another PCB and swap the chip at IC602.

[fzabkar]

Try a USB 2.0 cable. USB 2.0 and 3.0 use different data pins. You may be lucky.

If you put your ear against the drive, can you hear any sound at all?

[caffeinated]

Firstly, check the connections to the USB socket, maybe they're damaged.

If not then you'll need another PCB and swap the chip at IC602.

USB connection seems fine, pins are in order, device itself is recognised.

Agreed with the PCB swap, just trying to work out how I accomplish that...

Try a USB 2.0 cable. USB 2.0 and 3.0 use different data pins. You may be lucky.

If you put your ear against the drive, can you hear any sound at all?

Tried USB2, save result (recognised but no storage). Dead silent, doesn't seem to even attempt to spin up.