Would PCB swap for my dead Seagate 1tb 7200.11 work?

[HDD Spaz]

To be honest proper data recovery companies have probably got better things to do than look at your wifes axe wound.

[pcimage]

I can help in UK, if you're interested, in complete confidence of course.

We do paedo/kidnap/murder/armed robbery work for the police, and so governed by strict confidentiality.

PM me if interested.

[felibo]

@Digital Don

Don't know if u have found a way around ur ROM problem. But hey, since it is a practice run y don't u ask Eric Lee 2 posts down after the 1st post. He might able to lead u in the right direction. There is no harm in tryn to get a higher grade even though u have 90% of ur data which is an A, so making an A+ is like putting icing on top of the cake to just make u feel u have accomplished what u set out to do.

Don't worry I have sent out the pom-poms for u.

[HDD Spaz]

[quote="pcimage"]
We do paedo/kidnap/murder/armed robbery work for the police, and so governed by strict confidentiality.

quote]

The police outsource those jobs to you? What is the world coming to? PCimage, Data Recovery Guru, Hitman and Robbery expert on the side

Sorry couldn't help myself.

[HDD_MASTER]

I love Axe wounds!

[Digital Don]

The firmware fix didn't work, the board is dead, so rom swap here I come. Another thread says that the rom chip is the one that starts with 25x (pcimage and thatdellguy), makes sense since it is close to the drive read/write head connector.

st3500320as-7200-fried-t10453.html

I was looking at temperature controlled irons from Maplin UK, they are about £50, I was going to buy one but my friend has offered to do the chip swap for me, so fingers crossed.

Digital Don

[Digital Don]

Success!!!

To my surprise, the rom swap worked, all this has taught me a valuable lesson, "hard drives are not invincible, and things can go wrong". I feel very lucky, time to start backing up my data!!!

Good luck to you guys out there attempting the rom swap.

Regards
Digital Don

[felibo]

Success!!!

@ Digital Don
Told I have the pom-poms out for U

[Digital Don]

Something that maybe of interest!

An alternative data recovery method is to do a live board swap, sounds risky, but if you have damaged your rom chip, you have no other choice.

This is an excellent source of information.

http://www.myharddrivedied.com/presenta ... paper.html

Regards
Digital Don

[pepe]

yeah, and run into translator problems (at least, but with latest drives you probably won't access anything.) ... Is that also said in that video?