i have a seagate momentus 7200.4 serial ata disk drive of 320 gb.
yesterday i was connecting it with sata to usb cable to use as an external hdd but due to cable fault its logic started smelling.
i oppened that and found that one component in black color is burned its number is KE8. now the hdd is not spinning.
tell me that it can be repaired?

details of my hdd is:

seagate monentus 7200.4
serial ata disc drive 320 gb

model no: ST9320423AS
PART NO: 9HV14E-020
SERIAL NO: 5VH0HKZH
FIRMWARE: 0003HPM1
SITE CODE: WU
PCB STICKER: 100537087 K K010CCGU
PCB NUMBER: 100585308 REVA
WWN: 5000C5001BD6B7C3
CT: 2ARFH0183Y0ZF9
NBPC: 515659-001

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ST9320423AS. attached pls find a faulty drive. the upper head lookes like broken or missing from factory.are ther 2 kinds of this disk, seagate's site says heads 3/4.

is there a way to identify no of heads with part no, or somethng else?

may we use a donor drive heads with 4 heads?. pending other parameters are the same?

tks
Ephraim

Ephram,

Yes, you can use 4 heads to replace a 3 head drive. In fact, it is usually easier to find a 4 head donor that matches than a 3 head donor which may or may not have the same missing head.

Good luck.

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Recovery Force Data Recovery

tks a lot lcoughey

AIUI, the third character in the serial number codes for the number of heads or platters.

However, in your case this is moot.

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tks a lot fzabkar.

"AIUI" - what does it mean?
moot - what does it mean?

tks again

ephraim

AIUI - as I understand it
moot - "Of no practical importance; irrelevant"

The point is moot in this case because you've been advised that a 4-head donor will be suitable for your 3-head patient, so it doesn't matter which donor you get.

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A backup a day keeps DR away.

tks again fzabkar