Get drive specific info from damaged ROM

[DR-Kiev]

@ DR-Kiev: Thank you. Can the U8 stay there and just the patient U12 to be switched to the donor PCB? Because the donor U8 is gone. They remover it and I guess just threw it away or kept laying around at their desk. Also, does the Initio (Symware?) encryption chip has to be switched from the patient to donor?

Thanx again. You guys are very helpful.

You ask too many questions . I told you, choose another DR service with proper knowledges until late .
Or are going to DIY this job or what?

[Tlucz-huba]

Since when is being inquisitive a bad thing? And No, I will not do it myself. I do not have any equipment and especially experience, so I will happily leave that to the experts. But I don`t see a reason whey I should not know what needs to be done. That way I can maybe get in idea if the DR company is competent or not.

I have already sent it to one DR service (with good credentials) and look how it ended up. I paid approx. $100 for shipping and diagnostics fee. If I did not ask questions around here I would live under impression that the drive is beyond recovery, because that`s what they told me in the DR company.

But that`s OK, you have been more than helpful. I appreciate your input and I do respect people that choose not to share the information (either because it took too much time/money to research it or for the sake of the drive to keep it recoverable).