Hey!

I broke this hard drive, and my friend who's quite the computer guru reffered to this forum as a last resort to save the data on it. Either you can read my story, or you might scroll down and see what I'm in need of.

This is my story. I was at my girl friend's house fixing her/her parent's computer. They had been experiencing a lot of weird toubles with their computer lately. I checked the computer and decided to formate their hard drive, just blow it out and install a new clean windows on it. So I back up all their information, i.e. personal photos, dokuments, music, movies etc, on this portable hard drive. Everything is going just fine I back the files up, reinstall their windows and so on. While I wait for windows I lay back with my laptop looking at some movie. The installaion is awfully slow so I decide to bring the laptop down to the kitchen and get some food. After two sandwiches and some juice I go back up again to configure windows. Everything's still going smooth! Next I grab the portable hard drive and plug in the USB and the power cord. There is a small strange sound and the power diode goes out. I unplug the hard drive and there is this distinct smell of burned electronics. I'm like "...fuck", I then realize that I'd connected the computers power supply to the hard drive. Hereafter the hard drive have been broken, I've tried to plug it dirctly into the computers SATA slot. But it still doesn't work so I guess that it is the "operating circuit" that's broken, not the power supply. I'm really angry with seagate to have produced a so fragile hard drive. I mean, it got like 15 volts instead of 12 or so, and it didn't even have a safety capacitor or a fuse of a sort...
So I wish to fix the hard drive for my girl friend, she's really mad at me . It's her hard drive and she got a lot of files there that she wants, e.g. this novel that she wrote...

SUMMURY OF MY PROBLEM: I connected a portable hard drive to a laptops power supply and it has been broke since. I tried to connect the hard drive directly to my computers SATA power supply but it didn't do any good. So I guess I need a new pcb board or what ever they're called.

I got those numbers from the hard drive:

S/N: 9QF08KA1
ST3320820AS
P/N: 9BJ13G-065
Firmware: 3: AAD
Date code: 07155

I'll try to get a piture on it too!


Thanks in advance you guys!
David Andersson

Can you describe any burnt parts?

where are you based?

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I do not reckon any burned parts, I did some measurements with a volt meter, but I didn't get any wiser by that.

I am based in Södertälje, sweden.

Södertälje... Nice, I went there many years ago, some sort of funfair island as I remember?

Anyway, I suggest you PM "mr_spokk", he's near you and sure he can sort you out at a good price.

Sean

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My disk with a head problem is just like yours:

ST3320820AS
P/N: 9BJ13G-065
Firm: 3.AAD
Data Code: 07284
Product of China

Please send me your contact by PM (i have already send to you a PM)

storluffarn, Hi, I did exactly the same thing that you did, burned my seagate HD 7200.10 320gb, and now I'm finding ways to fix it. I was thinking I could by another HD and change the controller card. What did you do? Could you recover your data? Thanks a lot.

Fernando.

I tried many times to talk with storluffarn, i had no answer.

Fernando, i will give you my msn by PM, add me and we can talk, maybe i can help you, and maybe you can help me.
Please send me all specifications of your disk.

Best regards to all

Hello all!
I have the same model of this hard disk:
ST3320820AS
P/N: 9BJ13G-065
Firm: 3.AAD

It seems that it got a shock. I think I can hear the pin when I flip the HDD over back and forth. What do you recommend? Is there any professional to fix the issue in Belgium?

I suggest you contact dobrevjetser, he is recommended professional in Belgium

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