Hi – I’ve been reading up on these forums – I thought I knew a bit about hard drives until I found this forum… now I've learnt enough to know that hard drives are complex items and I'm likely to mess it up if I try to diagnose it by myself!

I've got a WD 160GB (WD1600BEVS-00RST0) which I found part of the PCB burnt out last week. I would normally have a backup (one on my PC, one on external HDD)… however this was the backup drive when I was re-installing my PC and it just happened to burn out as I plugged it in to restore the data… talk about bad timing!

Drive details are:
Model# WD1600BEVS-00RST0
Drive Parameters: LBA 312581808
Cap: 160GB
SATA
Date: 02 NOV 2006
DCM: HACTJABB
Board number on label: 2061-701450-F00 AD
Board number on PCB: 2060-701450-005 REV A

Here are also some pics from the damage. Drive powers on but of course can’t be detected by the computer. What are my options on getting the data back? If any further info is needed please let me know.









Many thanks for your help! Matt_will_fix_it

You have PM

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hi,
have you solve your problem. please contact me if still need help. i would like to help. thanks.

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Just an update on this case. pcimage managed to recover the data onto another drive for a resonable price. Just got the drive back today and everything is intact.

For others out there in the same situation as myself (broken HDD with data on it, a little bit of hardware knowledge but not enough to be a pro), then I would highly recommend sending it off to pcimage or one of the other fellow professionals on this board.

Thanks again pcimage!

Thanks for the kind words Matt, nice to be appreciated!

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