I'm looking for a PCB for a Hitachi Travelstar 2.5" drive (see below), if anyone has one for sale or knows where i can find one please let me know ASAP. the drive i'm working with right now is out of a macbook from 2006, currently its suffering from the click of death. i'm hoping its a PCB issue, i dont know the history of the drive, it was brought to me this way. when the owner first described the problem over the phone, she described it as clicking, however when i first received the drive, it wasnt clicking, but no system would recognize the drive. after a few hours the click of death started.

If you have the PCB for sale, i will buy it, i have many methods of payment available, so what ever is easiest for you. also, If anyone has any insight on this problem or useful information about recovering Hitachi drives in general, please feel free to share it.



Drive Info:
HTS542525K9SA00
250gb 5400prm
P/N 0A53329
MLC DA2010
OCT-07

PCB:
0A53120
DA1684B

Thanks...

Very very very unlikely to be PCB problem.

99% certainly going to be bad heads.

In any case a PCB needs to be programmed with the same UNIQUE information in the NVRAM chip on the original PCB, so just fitting even an apparently identical PCB WILL NOT WORK. You need expensive tools to do this.

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Its from a macbook.
Very likely media damage and so for the bin.

Dobre

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