Seagate HDD logic board!!!

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Hey folks!

I will make long story short.A friend of mine has Seagate HDD which all of a sudden do not spin anymore,but he has life important data on it.The logic board must be replaced and unforcenately I do not have the exact same one as his Seagate HDD has.
Here are the full informations about the Seagate HDD:

Manufacturer: Seagate
Capacity: 200 GB
Type: SATA
RPM: Barracuda 7200.7
Model: ST3200822AS
S/N: 4LJ0D619
P/N: 9W2854-301
HDA P/N: 100314751
Config: A5D-08
Firmware: 3.01
Date code: 05381
Site code: TK

HDD looks like this:
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And the logic board looks like this:
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If ANYONE has this logic board or know a place where I can get it,I would be extremely grateful.My friend needs that data back because he has so many life important informations on it including the credit cards,bank accounts and so on...




Cheers!
 
LOL LOL LOL.....


And whats this about seagate drives are the best???? You crack me up with your seagate rules attitude.

Sorry, but I couldn't resist this.
 
forgive me if i'm wrong stars, but can't you get a used one from ebay and salvage its logic board? Im taking the idea from automotive experience, If i need a Volt Regulator, I go buy a Gen 3 alternator from the junk yard and pull the regulator rather than sink $250 on a new one (regulators go more often than the alternator does).
 
Just tell him to use the backups that he has been faithfully making at very least on a weekly basis, preferably daily. No?

In all seriousness, how do you know it's the logic board rather than a mechanical failure preventing it from spinning up? Even if its the logic board, those boards store drive-specific information (calibration information, bad sectors and so on) so using a replacement board might be a long shot, even if the mechanical bits are fine. For recovering "life important data" after a HDD failure, I would recommend a professional instead of risking messing things up.
 
johnb35 said:
LOL LOL LOL.....


And whats this about seagate drives are the best???? You crack me up with your seagate rules attitude.

Sorry, but I couldn't resist this.
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Hahaha.It's ok John:D
Well this is not MY HDD so I don't care and to ME not a single Seagate HDD ever died yet.When it does,I will let you know.
Still this is the FIRST Seagate HDD that died to my friend(s) in the last 10 years for the difference of WD which I saw dying in my friend(s)'s computers/laptops so damn often lol.So yeah...Seagate are still my favorite.:P
Besides every HDD will fail sooner or later anyway,but if I have to say which do that a LOT more often,I would say it's WD.


wolfeking said:
forgive me if i'm wrong stars, but can't you get a used one from ebay and salvage its logic board? Im taking the idea from automotive experience, If i need a Volt Regulator, I go buy a Gen 3 alternator from the junk yard and pull the regulator rather than sink $250 on a new one (regulators go more often than the alternator does).
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Of course I can get one from Ebay,but watch this...I live in a crapy country and not a single one of these HDDs ships to my country.It ships to MANY countries,but mine is not one of them.Nothing new anyway.I got used to that nothing can ship in here lol.It sucks I know xD


hackapelite said:
Just tell him to use the backups that he has been faithfully making at very least on a weekly basis, preferably daily. No?

In all seriousness, how do you know it's the logic board rather than a mechanical failure preventing it from spinning up? Even if its the logic board, those boards store drive-specific information (calibration information, bad sectors and so on) so using a replacement board might be a long shot, even if the mechanical bits are fine. For recovering "life important data" after a HDD failure, I would recommend a professional instead of risking messing things up.
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I know.That is what I have been telling him for so so damn long time.I told him MANY times to make backups on other hard disk drives,but he said that nothing bad will happen if he doesn't make backups on other hard disk drives.And yesterday when he called me he told me he was so damn sorry for not listening to me hahaha =D
I am kinda even happy this happened to him because he is one of those SMARTEST PEOPLE who know the best and who never make backups.So I guess he kinda deserves that lol.

I know it's the logic board because I opened HDD in a clean area and made sure that the plates can spin and that the head is not stuck.I also made sure that the motor is also working and it does.So the only thing that can be is the power connection which goes through the logic board and the logic board is toasted lol.I don't know what the hell he was doing with that HDD yesterday,but the logic board is really really toasted lol.


I will try to look around on other places to see where I can buy the exact HDD,but I doubt I will find any which ships worldwide and ESPECIALLY to Croatia lol.
I hate my country hahaha!:mad::D
 
I know it's the logic board because I opened HDD in a clean area and made sure that the plates can spin and that the head is not stuck.I also made sure that the motor is also working and it does.So the only thing that can be is the power connection which goes through the logic board and the logic board is toasted lol.I don't know what the hell he was doing with that HDD yesterday,but the logic board is really really toasted lol.
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Crikey

"Clean area" isn't good enough, you'd need a proper cleanroom and preferably be a trained professional. No idea how successful your attempt to recover the files will be, but if you do get a fitting logic board, make sure you pull the necessary files off fast. Real fast. Then, if it actually works and you by chance manage to get the precious data off the drive, never use the drive again. Ever.
 
hackapelite said:
Crikey

"Clean area" isn't good enough, you'd need a proper cleanroom and preferably be a trained professional. No idea how successful your attempt to recover the files will be, but if you do get a fitting logic board, make sure you pull the necessary files off fast. Real fast. Then, if it actually works and you by chance manage to get the precious data off the drive, never use the drive again. Ever.
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Don't worry lol.I have done this many times and never had problems.Only this time I simply cannot do anything without the logic board since it's completely dead.And of course I will tell him to never ever use that HDD again even if it works again after I replace the logic board.I never use repaired HDDs anyway even if they work.If he WILL use it then that is his own fault.
If you find a place with that logic board,I would be extremely grateful to you.




Cheers everyone!
 
If he's going to get everything off the drive and is successful in doing so, I would have him run something like DBAN on it before disposing of it.
 
Is it an OEM seagate driver from a HP machine by any chance? If so it's probably one of the problem drives that had a firmware bug, where if the hours on count ticked over a certain amount (or maybe it was the drive spin up count) once you turned the system off, it would not come back on. If so, it's bricked.
 
paulcheung said:
Any life important files should have at least 3 copies around.
Cheers.
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That is what I told him like 1 million times,but he would always say:"Nah nothing is not going to happen."
Yea right...hahaha!And now he is so damn sorry for not listening to me xD

linkin said:
Is it an OEM seagate driver from a HP machine by any chance? If so it's probably one of the problem drives that had a firmware bug, where if the hours on count ticked over a certain amount (or maybe it was the drive spin up count) once you turned the system off, it would not come back on. If so, it's bricked.
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Nope it's OEM Seagate HDD from HP machines.He bought that HDD in a store without anything approximately a year ago.

I have found the logic board for that HDD,but unforcenately it doesn't ship to Croatia.AAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I guess I will have to keep looking.
But I'll tell you one thing for sure...once I get his data off that HDD,I am going kick my friend's ass for not listening to me lol :P
 
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