HDD GURU FORUMS

Hopefully someone will help me, manufactors don't want to know about it. Living in Ireland but bought Lacie hard drive in New York under a year ago. Anyway smoke and burning smell coming from circuit board on the hard drive. now I cannot access my hard drive. Can a replacement circuit board or repair.

Hitachi
0A38016BA31200C97
P/N 0A38016
Capacity 1TB
LBA 1.953.525.168 Sectors

S/N MS0W12HK
MLC BA3120
CHS 16383/16/63

Model HDT721010SLA360
Sata 3.0 gb/s
RPM 7200RPM

As you can guess, I'm not a techie..

Hope someone can help

Regards
Wexford-Ireland

If you can ship it to UK, I can help with this.

It's not a straightforward PCB swap, these drives have unique NVRAM info on them which needs to be transferred.

PM me if interested.

If you upload a detailed photo, one of us may be able to help you repair your board. Many times the problem is only a shorted diode, in which case it can simply be removed.

Check the components in this photo clip:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/HD ... 60_TVS.jpg

The NVRAM information is stored in two ICs at locations U5 and U7. If you need to replace your board, your local TV/AV repair shop should be able to transfer these chips for you.