hello all, I have had some power issues on a system an managed to burn out one of the diodes on the pcb and it looks like a 9.9k resistor managed to unsolder it self on the top right hand side of the board. So in the mean time I thought that it would be a great idea to swap the pcb from a st3120026as which ofcourse did not do anything beyond continuous reading and rereading sound. Then I noticed the resistor being out and I put a new one in and now the drive spins and reads I think but shows no data. I did a ddresue to copy the data to an image but it show a blank file, have I burned out something else?? The drive have 150GB worth of data on it so it should not be blank, the MDB shows to be empty as well, the drive way used in a Linux workstation with 20GB boot and 180GB home. Any hints would be appreciated.

Try transferring the EEPROM from the bad board to the donor.

Jon

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I have not replaced the board yet as it seems to be spinning the drive and I am able to access the drive as well, although it shows no data, I can run fdisk and it show all the right parametres for the drive but no partitions.

So anyone with any ideas as I said the drive spins and I am able to run mhdd on it but is still shows no data