Hey guys, i was recommended to check your site out by the guys at seagate data recovery. Their £600 data recovery service was a bit steep for my wallet.

Anyway i turned my computer on this morning, went to the toilet and returned to the smell of burning TCP. After tracing the smell to my computer and realising my hard drive was not showing up on the bios. I took the hard drive out to find this (attachments). At first i thought the worst, but through searching on the net and seeing other similar cases i have hope that the data may still be recoverable. I was hoping you guys would be able to give me advice on whether it looks recoverable & also what may of caused the burn out?

Also i heard that i maybe able to retrieve the data through changing the PCB with another hardrive. I believe there are some things i need to look out for when getting another one though. I was just wondering what these are? I've included some of my hard drive info below to help out. P.S. i don't have much technical experience when it comes to these things. I was wondering, if it was something that someone in my position would find difficult is there someone that would be able to do it for me for a decent price!?

Seagate 1500GB

S/N: 9VS0R1M3
P/N: 9JU138-302
F/W: CC1H

Thanks

Hi,

1. drop far away your Power supply from your pc!
2. you have 2 option:

2a, try to find another .11 PCB and replace the ROM on it, cross your fingers for the preamp is still be good, and image the drive.
2b, ask pcimage user in this forum for help, because he is in UK.

3, there is no 3.

(This was the PS spike wich activated the TVS protection in the PCB.
The TVS gets shorted, and overheated the under layer of the power planes on the PCB.)

Janos

WO~~~~~
have you cooking during burning?

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Wow, that was a nasty burn.
Contact Sean at PcImage member5866.html ,He's near you.

Regards/ Bosse

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