Bricked HD, Nokia CA-42 data cable & removing circuitboard. - Anyone tried this ?

[Medic-one]

Ok, so my seagate 1.5 TB harddrive is dead. It started clicking loud, spinning took longer, and every now and then it would just dissapear (quiting the games installed on it, i was playing at the time). And now it doesn’t work at all any more, i can hear it spin but it won’t show up on my desktop, and only every now and then in the bios.

I looked up the model number (Seagate ST31500341as) and apperently loads of people have problems with that same drive.
I looked if i could update the firmware but already have the latest version, so i can have for advice, and bought two 2TB seagate's (the one's from the deal on here), and an SSD.

However, i still want to recover the data from my broken 1.5 seagate, and found this link, adviced you on how to remove the circuitboard, cut wires and use something called hyperterminal :

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/archive/index.php/t-220040.html

I've also found a few video's on youtube of people doing the same fix to the same harddrive.

I was just wondering if anyone on here ever tried anything like that before, and if there's any tips/advice they can give, as i've never tried anything like this before so am a bit worried i'll screw it up.

 

[Shad]

That's an amazing bit of ingenuity there, I hope you can get the drive working again using that

 

[Yamahahahahaha]

However, i still want to recover the data from my broken 1.5 seagate, and found this link, adviced you on how to remove the circuitboard, cut wires and use something called hyperterminal

Hyperterminal is / was a bit of software which interfaces with serial connections on your computer. Things like COM ports which connected modems to your PC.

I was just wondering if anyone on here ever tried anything like that before, and if there's any tips/advice they can give, as i've never tried anything like this before so am a bit worried i'll screw it up.

Take. Your. Time.
Print out that page incase the website is down when you need to use it, or some other freak event occurs. Bonus: You can tick the steps off when you've completed them and make notes!
Use a camera (camera phone is fine) to capture layouts and writing. It's often easier to refer to a 'before' picture when you're trying to reconstruct wiring.

 

[Medic-one]

Yea camera photo probably will be the best idea. I'll give a go next weekend and will update here on how it went.

 

[Medic-one]

I didn't fancy the whole cutting/shrimping writes bit, so just bought this little premade cable of ebay : http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271084225730

Should make everything a little easier, fingers crossed!

 

[Attu90]

Let us know how you get on.

 

[Medic-one]

will do.