Hi all,
I have a hard disk Hitachi HTS543232L9A300 that suddenly stopped working. I noticed that just doesn't spin anymore.

I unscrewed the PCB and I noticed a burnt chip which, as it burned, stained also the mechanics.



I have another hard drive exactly the same model but with different codes in the pcb.



I trivially swapped the PCB and, in this way, the hd runs but is not recognized by bios.

I doubt that I will be able to recover the data so I kindly ask you a suggestion of someone (I live in Italy) that can recover data from this hard drive at an affordable price.
Mostly are family files.

Thank you,
armando

Hi, contact BlackST he's in Italy:
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http://www.rescue-it.se

Did you ever REALLY worked with TOW(ADA) in such case ? All the ones that came here had catastrophical failure (mostly from notebook) - still have them as specimen for failure analysis.



And then did heads move / did the drive keep spinning ?

P.S. on these disks playing the "board jockey" without knowing what you're doing is always a REALLY BAD IDEA.

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Did not seem that heads were moving, but the hd was spinning.
Just the time to see that the bios did not recognize it, I turned it off and read this article:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 3387971584
then I arrived to hddguru.


Dear BlackST,
can you help me?

Currently I have a quotation of 400 euro which is beyond my spending capacity.