Hi,

A local computer shop was imaging this MHT2060AH drive then it apparently died. Maybe they had an accident but won't say?

Anyway the drive now appears to be dead.

A protection device with the letter Z or N next to the ide interface power in was open circuit.
There is a short near the motor controller ic TS2255 and after lifting a couple of components it looks like the chip has shorted.

I have tested the drive with a different series MHT2040AT model board and the drive will spin up so i'm hoping there is a chance to get the data by changing the pcb or components.

Another drive is on its way but what would be the best way to attempt a repair?

Is it best to swap the M29F**** rom to an identical pcb from a doner drive? Are there problems with this?
Or should I replace the motor ic and any other parts on the original pcb?

I have searched the site but havn't found a definitive answer for this model drive.

Thanks!

If you can find a drive with the same firmware, e.g. xxxx-8162, then a board swap should suffice. However, you can certainly swap the ROM on a PCB with different firmware.

Jon

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Thanks for the info.
Fortunately I didn't have to go for the pcb repair or swapover.
While having a casual chat with one of the guys they mentioned they had a spanned ghost image taken from the drive. They presumed because they were unable to browse the image using ghost explorer the image was no good.
Wrong assumption!

I took the image from them and forced a restore from image by ignoring any error. The image did have errors.
After the drive showed as RAW so then I performed a simple software recovery on the drive and got back what looks like a 100% recovery, 40gb of docs & pics, pst etc.
I did check and with a bit of tweaking the recovered system was bootable.