Samsung dead HELP!

[fzabkar]

If both 12V and 5V show "1" on the multimeter does that mean its not a blown TVS?

If it's a "1" and not a "1.0", then that would be an overrange indication. It should be the same reading you get when you hold the probes apart.

I would connect your drive to a SATA port on your motherboard. If it spins up and detects in BIOS, then the board will be OK. The data will be encrypted, though. In this case you will need to repair or replace the USB-SATA bridge board in your enclosure.

BTW, you probably would have been better off with a separate thread.

[poehere]

Oh no this one is good. One burned drive after another. Seems a little strange that he has all these burned up PCB on different drives. but this one is good. Let us see if he has a few more drives coming with some more TVS problems. He will become a TVS expert after all this one is done.

[bluekalel]

The multimeter shows a "1" with the probes apart and when I test them on the 5V and 12V TVS.

I hooked it up to the computer with sata and the bios did not recognize the drive or spin up.

The drive does nothing no spinning no clicking no partial anything. I'm thinking of switching the PCB board with the good PCB board from the other exact HD I have. But I need to do more research on how to determine if its a good donor board and what are the ramifications of replacing the board.

Oh moving and power outages suck!

Any help is appreciated,
BlueKalel

[poehere]

Yah put on this board. See if it spins. Then move adaptive to the board and recover your data. Forget this encryption it is not on your HDD. You purchased these drives apart or at same time and put them in your usb enclosure. It is not same. Do not pay attention to this one. Just try the board from the other drive and see if the HDD spins up.

[bluekalel]

Thanks all for the great help.

I went ahead and swapped the PCB boards and it spun up and ever showed me my data, AWESOME!!!

Now if I can only find out what happened to the board.


Thanks,
BlueKalel

[zeta7007]

Hi !
I am new , but i hope you help me.
My story:
I dont know what i do!
Two driwers are dead.I flashed hd642jj from DELL frimware and i forgot out the hd 103si.
hd642jj>hd753jj S.M.A.R.T. missing, dead
hd103si>hd103uj S.M.A.R.T. missing dead
no see DOS or Windows ! OK! I was stupid!
I think ,I need two old firmware but it is not in the net.
I emailed to Seagate support, they dont any help me.
Sorry my english!

[BlackST]

Hi !
I am new , but i hope you help me.
My story:
I dont know what i do!
Two driwers are dead.I flashed hd642jj from DELL frimware and i forgot out the hd 103si.
hd642jj>hd753jj S.M.A.R.T. missing, dead
hd103si>hd103uj S.M.A.R.T. missing dead
no see DOS or Windows ! OK! I was stupid!
I think ,I need two old firmware but it is not in the net.
I emailed to Seagate support, they dont any help me.
Sorry my english!

Seagate ?!?

Anyway now there's nothing you can do.

[zeta7007]

Yes,
Seagate
"Thank you for contacting Seagate Technical Support.

We unfortunately do not have any Firmware for the Samsung drives because they are no longer being produced.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact Seagate Technical Support.

Best regards"

[fzabkar]

Seagate ?!?

Haven't you heard?

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?l ... 48090aRCRD

[BlackST]

Seagate ?!?

Haven't you heard?

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?l ... 48090aRCRD

The "Seagate ?!?" was ironic in fact. Another nightmare for DIYers and diggers ?