Question about Dell Travelstar IC25T048ATDA05-0

[rberry]

Hi Guru's,
I'm a green newbie so please be gentle with me. Here is my situation; In the process of trying to ghost my work laptop harddrive I missed the pins by one place. Ended up with a dead hd. This is an IBM Travelstar 32 GB IC25T048ATDA05-0. There is nothing on this drive that would warrant an expensive data recovery service, but I hate to loose certain things on it that I have been doing for 2 years. I found a PCB on ebay and bought it. I changed out the pcb and now the drive spins up, clicks 20 times then runs but neither BIOS or MHDD will recognize it as a drive. The shield picture of the drive PCB I bought was an exact match for mine, The part no. sticker on the pcb I fried is 07N7628 and the one I received is 07N5439. I would appreciate your opinions as to my situation. Am I dead in the water or is there possibly some firmware update I might be able to do?

Thanx in advance

[Nationwide DR]

The PCB you have purchased is not correct or the disk has fried pre amp. try to match Model, Part No, MLC. You could always send it to a pro, the fee is reasonable if only pcb has failed.

[pcimage]

You need to match the 1st two lines of the 4-line code on the little white sticker on the PCB.

These drives have no NVRAM on the PCB

btw... This should be a 48Gb drive

Sean

[CK]

btw... This should be a 48Gb drive

Not necessarily! I've got 2 of these which are actually 32GB Drives! Seems there was some naming convention anomaly when these were manufactured.

[CK]

Also, because it's from a Dell machine, you can try searching for the Dell Part Number, it's likely to give you the closest match possible. Look for D/PN or simliar on the label, the part number usually starts with a zero. Knock off the zero and search for the next 5 digits. Doing this usually gets you a drive with the required matching PCB with the first 2 lines matching.

[rberry]

Thanks for the great replies. Yes, it is a 32 GB drive even though IBM doesn't seem to remember making it in their documentation. I have managed to find a match and now just have to wait for the auction to end. Thanks again.