HDD GURU FORUMS

Hi

Anyone have a seagate momentus ST9120821AS FW: 7.01 Loc: WU PCB or drive will work. I will be sOOOO greatful.

I mainly just need the PCB

Please email me for phone number

Thanks
Patrick

hi,
i have this kind of PCB for sell. but i need high quality images of your PCB both side for confirm which model you have. would you like to send them to my email? thanks.

Hi,

We have this kinds of working PCB too, pls also send me some clear photo so that we could match what you need. We would like to help.

Thanks
Eric

What are the symptoms of your drive? These usually have severe media damage in my experience.

Hi

I will try to post pictures this weekend -- I bought a donor drive from ebay (very hard to find) and swapped the boards out. The dead drive spun up, mounted and copied about 3.5 gb before there was a fairly loud click and then the new board would not spin up..

I tried desoldering one side of a TVS diode near the power connecter that tested leaky with a digital multimeter -- to no avail.
Upon further investigation I discovered that the power supply I was using with my adapter was flaky (voltage wise) and may have caused the over voltage on the donor PCB. I corroborated this theory by connecting a brand new power supply to the TVSless donor and the drive spun with a clicking..

I believe that a healthy PCB with this new power supply will allow me to continue copying data. Even if there is significant file system damage -- I know how to use ddrescue and can get an image and piece together anything thats still good.

TO THOSE WHO WANTED PICS
The exact model is ST9120821AS -- Firmware = 7.01 Facility = WU.
Its a drive with an apple logo on the front that came from a MAC Mini. Im fairly certain any drive with the proper firmware and location will work for my needs.

Thanks for any help!!!

Patrick

I wish you the best of luck, but I fear drccsc will be correct.

This particualar version has "previous" for irrecoverable platter damage.

Search google for "Seagate 7.01" and see what u come up with!