Maxtor - progress but advice please

[Moush]

Hello,

I have a Maxtor 7Y250P (250G), whose board got torched by a careless moment with the power lead. I have got a replacement board, same number 301599100, and same s/w L8FYA, but for a 6Y120P.

The harddisk now runs, is seen in bios, and eventually, seen in Windows, but not the directories and files.

Have tried a few different recovery softwares; VirtualLab Client very slowly will scan, and can see a lot of the files on the disk (but I haven't paid yet to recover as it looks like a complete scan will take weeks).

HDDScan will do a complete scan and comes up with no bad sectors, but some blocks take a long to access, but most are fine.

Wonder why the board does not work fully, it is because it is designed for a drive with different size, or has something on the drive been trashed, like a file allocation table?

I would like to recover data, but not the end of the world if I cannot. What is recommended please?

If disk formatted, would it then be restored to normal?

Thanks very much.

regards,
Stephen.

[jono-ats]

Swap the 8 pin chip that is marked 25P10.

The heads map is different with the newer board. Swapping the ROM should do the trick.

DO NOT FORMAT THE DRIVE.

Jon