OK I have a Seagate HDD ST3500320NS pipeline 2 500gb sata originally from a sky hd box. To cut a long story short I had a significant power surge to a usb port due to a faulty peripheral. It blew the motherboard but strangely the CPU, ram, geforce 8800gts pcie card survived. The hard disk took a hit though because it just makes a short buzzing sound followed by a short silence then it buzzes the same again. it repeats that about 10 times then nothing.

An exact same model out of a sky box is only 28 quid. Are there any massive barriers to starting up with another pcb? Do they have any matching id numbers which allow them to recognise each other?

Please give me as much information as you can about how the interface between pcb and drive case. If there is a fundamental interface hurdle then I won't do it but for 28 quid i am very tempted

Probably head stiction. Needs to be opened in cleanroom.
Changing PCB wont help i'm afraid.

Dobre

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