All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 5 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: Harddisk SEAGATE ST2000LM007, FW:SBK2
PostPosted: March 8th, 2023, 10:01 
Offline

Joined: March 6th, 2023, 10:47
Posts: 2
Location: Czech Republic
Hi guys, I'm new here on the forum and I would like to ask a few things (sorry for the beginner questions).
I have a SEAGATE 2TB external drive (inside is a ST2000LM007 drive, FW: SBK2). The drive is not identified in the BIOS. I wanted to rescue data from the disk. I replaced the control board with a completely identical one from another disk, but the problem persisted. But the disk has defective read heads and scratched platters. I drew and printed a tool to fix the heads on a 3D SLA printer and then swapped the heads between the two disks. But even after the swap, the disk was not identified in the BIOS. Moreover, when I put the read heads and electronics board back into the originally working disk, it no longer worked either.
I would like to ask if the drive motor of the disk still needs to be synchronized with the read heads somehow, or what needs to be done if swapping the read heads is not enough?
Thank You for any help.


Attachments:
hdd_sea1.jpg
hdd_sea1.jpg [ 1.29 MiB | Viewed 1814 times ]
hdd_sea0.jpg
hdd_sea0.jpg [ 814.75 KiB | Viewed 1814 times ]
Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Harddisk SEAGATE ST2000LM007, FW:SBK2
PostPosted: March 8th, 2023, 10:39 
Offline

Joined: October 3rd, 2005, 0:40
Posts: 4311
Location: Hungary
you'd better outsource it because these are not for newbies. Quite a lot of pitfalls, and easy to screw it up beyond recovery.

pepe

_________________
Adatmentés - Data recovery


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Harddisk SEAGATE ST2000LM007, FW:SBK2
PostPosted: March 9th, 2023, 5:12 
Offline

Joined: March 6th, 2023, 10:47
Posts: 2
Location: Czech Republic
Hey guys, thanks for the replies and ideas.
Of course, before I partitioned the drive, I sent it to 2 data recovery labs. One demanded 1500$, the other about 900$.
That seemed quite a lot of money to me, so I disassembled the drive.
Of course I don't have a hepa 100 clean room. The perimeter of the drive is more likely to show scratched platters, not much dust got in..


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Harddisk SEAGATE ST2000LM007, FW:SBK2
PostPosted: March 9th, 2023, 10:42 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: October 14th, 2005, 9:26
Posts: 1029
acid1 wrote:
Hey guys, thanks for the replies and ideas.
Of course, before I partitioned the drive, I sent it to 2 data recovery labs. One demanded 1500$, the other about 900$.
That seemed quite a lot of money to me, so I disassembled the drive.
Of course I don't have a hepa 100 clean room. The perimeter of the drive is more likely to show scratched platters, not much dust got in..


also fat on platters.....

_________________
Нет ничего невозможного


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Harddisk SEAGATE ST2000LM007, FW:SBK2
PostPosted: March 9th, 2023, 11:47 
Offline

Joined: November 24th, 2011, 21:48
Posts: 103
Location: Canada
acid1 wrote:
Hey guys, thanks for the replies and ideas.
Of course, before I partitioned the drive, I sent it to 2 data recovery labs. One demanded 1500$, the other about 900$.
That seemed quite a lot of money to me, so I disassembled the drive.
Of course I don't have a hepa 100 clean room. The perimeter of the drive is more likely to show scratched platters, not much dust got in..


Regrettably, the price you were quoted by the other labs is reasonable for this model with mechanical issues. $900 is actually on the cheaper side.


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 5 posts ] 

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 45 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group