I had purchased a Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive last June which had functioned perfect until this Tueday - the drive had initially displayed a blinking light, with no recognition in Windows or the system BIOS. However, after removing the hard drive enclosure and connecting it to my motherboard via a SATA data/power cable, it had emitted a crackling-like sound, with some burning smell and wasn't recognized by the system BIOS either. I'm assuming that the drive's PCB board is damaged and was wondering of whether a replacement is possible - I had a lot of very important data stored on it (and in before "should have backed it up", I was about to purchase another 1TB drive and haven't been able to acquire one since to back up the data stored on this drive).
Any help is highly appreciated!
[b]The drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB external HDD with the PCB ID 100536501 REV A[/b]
Do you think you can get another HDD of the same kind and swap out the parts until it works?
[QUOTE=Hypershadsy;23229555]Do you think you can get another HDD of the same kind and swap out the parts until it works?[/QUOTE]
I think the PCB of each hard drive only adheres to that particular drive due to its firmware and possibly due to its power compatibility.
[url]http://forum.hddguru.com/would-pcb-swap-for-dead-seagate-1tb-7200-work-t12797.html[/url]
There are some industry experts in that thread and I'm getting a clear 'NO' from it.
Sorry OP.
[QUOTE=liquid_phase;23229964][url]http://forum.hddguru.com/would-pcb-swap-for-dead-seagate-1tb-7200-work-t12797.html[/url]
There are some industry experts in that thread and I'm getting a clear 'NO' from it.
Sorry OP.[/QUOTE]
I couldn't replace it myself, or it just simply cannot be repaired? I believe that it's the PCB that's at fault, and would simply just have the PCB replaced - is this possible without a data recovery company inspecting all of my data?
[QUOTE=livelonger12;23230140]I couldn't replace it myself, or it just simply cannot be repaired? I believe that it's the PCB that's at fault, and would simply just have the PCB replaced - is this possible without a data recovery company inspecting all of my data?[/QUOTE]
As I see it you've only got 3 options:
Find someone you know and trust who's very handy with a soldering iron.
Take it to a drive recovery firm or at least get a quote?
Lose all your data and get an RMA form filled out
From what I understand in that thread, the 7200.11 series of drives have the drive electronics PCB married to the actual drive somehow, so a straight swap doesn't appear to be possible. Unfortunately this is way above my head mate and I can't really give you any more of answer than that. But at least get a quote from a drive recovery firm, because they've got the expertise and it's not a platter issue it may be a very low quote.
[QUOTE=liquid_phase;23230319]As I see it you've only got 3 options:
Find someone you know and trust who's very handy with a soldering iron.
Take it to a drive recovery firm or at least get a quote?
Lose all your data and get an RMA form filled out
From what I understand in that thread, the 7200.11 series of drives have the drive electronics PCB married to the actual drive somehow, so a straight swap doesn't appear to be possible. Unfortunately this is way above my head mate and I can't really give you any more of answer than that. But at least get a quote from a drive recovery firm, because they've got the expertise and it's not a platter issue it may be a very low quote.[/QUOTE]
Hmm, one of the users mentioned of swapping a ROM chip on the board to repair it. I'll have to remove it next week somehow and will have to post additional details pertaining to the condition of the board.
Thanks for all the support anyway bud, I highly appreciate this!
[QUOTE=livelonger12;23230373]Hmm, one of the users mentioned of swapping a ROM chip on the board to repair it. I'll have to remove it next week somehow and will have to post additional details pertaining to the condition of the board.
Thanks for all the support anyway bud, I highly appreciate this![/QUOTE]
Good luck mate!
This happened to my 500GB drive, since that fateful day (i lost a lot of money, work, photos and files)
I now run 2 x 1TB 6gb/s SATA III hard drives in RAID (so if one fails i have the fallback drive and don't lose any work time or data) AND a SATA II 256GB Solid state drive that all my work and important files are stored on.
My work is also automatically backed up to my 100GB dropbox.
Backing up may seem like a waste of time, but you won't be thinking that when your hard drive fails and you lose years worth of data and your work portfolio.
[QUOTE=livelonger12;23229525]I had purchased a Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive last June which had functioned perfect until this Tueday - the drive had initially displayed a blinking light, with no recognition in Windows or the system BIOS. However, after removing the hard drive enclosure and connecting it to my motherboard via a SATA data/power cable, it had emitted a crackling-like sound, with some burning smell and wasn't recognized by the system BIOS either. I'm assuming that the drive's PCB board is damaged and was wondering of whether a replacement is possible - I had a lot of very important data stored on it (and in before "should have backed it up", I was about to purchase another 1TB drive and haven't been able to acquire one since to back up the data stored on this drive).
Any help is highly appreciated!
[b]The drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB external HDD with the PCB ID 100536501 REV A[/b][/QUOTE]
Paper weight... Sorry
There's a chance that the disk platters haven't broke. I've heard of ways to replace a PCB, but it's complicated to do. (Soldering, etc.) If anything I'd look around for any place that might be able to service it, there isn't much you can really do yourself.
yeah you can replace the PCB or the burned part IF you have a hot air station...
Thats our curse of mechanical and electronics devices, they all fail at some point...
I have 3 1TB drives and like 20 400GB drives that have failed in some way or another...
I personally would swap the PCB with an identicle drive, and also SWAP the firmware ROM as well
We both have the same HD and both crashed on the same day... :iiam:
Just for future reference, I wouldn't suggest getting a seagate drive larger than 320GB. Seagate has been known for their faulty drives 500GB and up.
Maybe it's a coincidence, but all the ones I've personally heard of fail almost exactly one year after purchase. Even my own 50)GB.
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;23244731]I personally would swap the PCB with an identicle drive, and also SWAP the firmware ROM as well[/QUOTE]
Okay, thanks. I'll have to learn a bit more of how PCBs are swapped.
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[QUOTE=chaoss;23231512]
Backing up may seem like a waste of time, but you won't be thinking that when your hard drive fails and you lose years worth of data and your work portfolio.[/QUOTE]
I was using that drive as a backup for an internal 320GB in May, just before it had died on me - and was just about to purchase another 1TB drive to backup important files from this one :(
I hope that doesn't happen to my Barracuda...
The EXACT same problem my friend. i just bought a new hdd, i don't think you can do anything about that problem the hdd just stops working and makes a funny sound and is not recognized by the computer. oh and i think it happened to mine in the same time period since i bought it like you.
[QUOTE=livelonger12;23300611]Okay, thanks. I'll have to learn a bit more of how PCBs are swapped.
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I was using that drive as a backup for an internal 320GB in May, just before it had died on me - and was just about to purchase another 1TB drive to backup important files from this one :([/QUOTE]
The fact that your hard drive's PCB burned up makes me question the quality of your power supply...
About a year ago, tomshardware said that RMA centers were saying a 30-40% failure rate. You may of acquired one of the old firmware drives: [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-7200.11-failing,6844.html[/url]
[QUOTE=D!ffr@c+0r;23302418]The fact that your hard drive's PCB burned up makes me question the quality of your power supply...[/QUOTE]
I questioned that myself when two other drives have previously failed - I had assumed that it was the drives that were at fault, and have only just realized that it may be the power supply.
There is some driver issue with 7200.12 drives that will stop posting after an X ammount of restarts.
It happened to me to.
I send it to seagate and the flashed the chip.
Got it back working with all the date still there.
You can check your serial on their site for the problem.
Hard drive clicking usually = failed drive, but if you can get it fixed feel free to rate me wrong o.O
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