Toshiba MQ01UBD100 Help me asses the damage.

[Testmensch]

Hi,

i have a problem with my Toshiba MQ01UBD100 Drive. It all started when the USB Plug started loosening itself from the board. Tried soldering it back on but that did not work so I bought a new board but it won't work.
I don't have any experience in Data Recovery so I don't know whats wrong with it, or how bad the damage is.

I shot a Video: https://vid.me/qrh8
and a photo of the specs. http://i.imgur.com/Lr3Xgjq.jpg

Is this something I could repair myself, maybe if i get my hand one the same model I could try to switch out some parts, or is this something were I am better off with a Professional? Does anyone had a similar Case and help out estimate costs for the Recovery?

Thank you

[fzabkar]

You need to transfer the serial flash memory chip from patient to donor. A TV/AV repair shop or a PCB supplier should be able to do this for you. Some PCB vendors include this as a free service.

[northwind]

Why did you open the drive in a non-clean environment if the problem is with the PCB?
And why did you power it up with the lid open?

I'm afraid you just turned a relatively cheap recovery to 10x more expensive.

[jermy]

If you already went on this route and you made things worse already (opening the lid)

i have a proposition for you, convert it to sata...

but you need to be careful not to overheat some certain vital chip and lose the data on the chip and make it harder or impossible for recovery.

toshiba HDDs contains unique information on the chip

[Testmensch]

Hi,

i fortunately never had anything to do with data recovery so I am totally new to this.
The data is not crucial so i can afford to lose it, thought i could learn something
while trying to recover the data.

Sucks I made it worse, but at least I know now never to open the lid in a non clean environment.
Guess one could tell the what the problem only from the sound without actually seeing whats going on?

I swapped the original PCB with this one (http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6567 ... 1442421137)

So I could get a matching serial flash memory chip and ask a repair shop to swap that for me or
try to convert the hdd to sata?

Thank you for your time, i will look into these to options to see what to do

[Testmensch]

double post, sorry.

[digisupport]

Today I had more drives coming in without seals, than drives with seals

[jermy]

very bad for both sides

for the costumer: is paying more money (sometimes a lot more) and some times makes things worse that impossible to recover

for DR guys/companies: work harder (some cases end up with nothing)