Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS-00B3A0

[keirondrk]

Hi guys!!!!!!, I've not had a good night..... .... my hard drive (of course) contains lots of valuable data I can not replace, and the board appears to have fried within a few seconds of turning it on... I should have known this was going to happen since I've been considering getting a new big backup drive for it all.

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS-00B3A0

DCM: HGNNNV2AG
R/N: 701537
LBA: 625142448
320GB
WWN: 50014EE0AB23DBD8
Product Of Malaysia

Plugged drive in via external 3.5" cheap caddy, came up not initialized and smelt burning
the PCB appears to have had a spike and I could see light burn damage to some chip contacts on the underside of the board.

Removed the PCB and I could see the damage
R67 & D3 both visibly damaged - inline with the sata power plug.
U1 "Smooth L7257 2.2" is all I can really read from this chip below this text it has popped

The PCB Details are below;

2061-701537-K00 01P XW 5N05 R7NE 5 0002310 8312 (Barcode sticker)

2060-701537-002 REV P1 (screen printed on the PCB itself)

I get the impression due to the boards being custom set to the drive my chance of changing the PCB for another are extremely slim... so I guess my only choice is a data recovery company.. any recommendations in the UK?... budget is a big issue, either way I will not be able to do it presently, but hopefully in the future if the price is not too drastic..

Thanks for any advice!!!

[poehere]

In UK contact PCimage here on forum. Speak with Sean on this one. He can help you out on this.

[keirondrk]

thanks for the advice poehere, I shall try and hunt him down on the forum and see what he says....

[Alexii]

post a picture if u can. Ur situation can be a quick 5 minute fix ( remove/replace diodes and ur in business ) or a long and expensive one ( smooth got burned , preamp on the head stack died , need a head transplant ).

[keirondrk]

there is some minimal part damage I could prob get replacements for but just as you mentioned about the Smooth chip being burnt being bad news that's exactly the case... it's melted itself below the smooth text...

[Alexii]

if smooth is burned there is a chance preamp is dead as well. However i see a lot of the burned smooth chips and in the entire last year none had dead preamp. Basicaly u need a compatible donor pcb. Transport the adaptives from ur dead one to it and u are back in the game ( again, that is if the preamplifier inside is ok )

[keirondrk]

thanks for the advice... will be sending the drive upto sean at pcimage in the hope can deal with the dead pcb and hopefully the preamp is all fine then :/

[pcimage]

All mended

[Alexii]

gj =) Was preamp ok ?

[pcimage]

Yep, lucky boy!