I believe its my pcb. It was in one of the WB world book enclosures etc. I took all of that nonsense apart, tried 2 other pcs with sata connectors and my sunbeamtech sata/ide/usb connector and nothing... The drive wont make a noise when plugging it in to any of them. It never made any previous sounds, it just out of the blue powered off and wouldnt power back up.

Read some of the threads here and other sources, and tried all of the ghetto fixes.... Seems like replacing the pcb may be the way to go.

Any ideas on where I might find a relatively cheap one? seems amazon and ebay etc have similar drives but for $60-130. Would rather spend much less like $15-30.

Thanks

Replacing the PCB will not do you any good without the ROM contents embedded in the MCU, which can be extracted or recreated by someone with the appropriate tools.

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

I think you have to spend more than $100...

Yea I read several replies suggesting the rom contents being embedded in a chip on the heads themselves or something.

Sorta thought If you got the exact same pcb then it would already have that information on it?

I guess Ill have to read up on a few forum threads to see what equipment is needed, and about how much that stuff runs... None of the companies around me, *small town*, offer any sort of data recovery.

Thanks for the replies.

PC3000 UDMA for diagnose etc. = $ 10'000 (ten thousand) + support fee, BGA rework station and accessories = from $ 2500-3000 , reballing kit = $ 500 , knowledge = priceless.

Wow, I had no idea it was that costly. No wonder none of the pc companies around me offer those services.

I guess my best bet is to purchasse a new hdd, and then try and regather my information elsewhere.

Thanks for the information

Nope, the information is different from drive to drive.

I can handle that and appear to be relatively local to you.

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

Ill send you a pm