Blewup My External Drive

[Glacius]

Hey All,

I have/had an external Seagate Hard drive all be it very old but it has a lot of my old information on that I really want to get back, basically I stupidly plugged in the wrong power for it Zzz was actually my laptop charger and although it did fit it just fried the hard drive board, So I have taken off the external casing off and tried plugging in the hard drive directly to my PC and even that was dead, after looking at the PCB (small board on back of hard drive) it is very obvious that 2 very very small capacitors or items have blown up, very black and nothing left of them.

I saw that getting a replacement PCB board and transferring over the BIOS chip is a way to fix this as my model of hard drive needs a specific BIOS chip Zzzzz is this as easy job? as I have found a replacement board just my soldering skills are pants and these chips are stupidly small. Not sure if companies or places that exists that could do this for me?

 

[andy_mk3]

You can sometimes replace the entire pcb on the drive. I have done this in the past with an old 320Gb IDE drive, managed to find a pcb with identical numbers. Just a case of removing half a dozen screws, swapping the board and hope for the best.

Replacing the soldered components on the board is a very very tricky job, near enough impossible I'd say.

 

[Glacius]

Thanks for the reply, from what I have seen online about my hard drive, I would definitely need to replace the chip If it is as tricky as you say I assume I would be best to get a company to do this for me? Or could I have ago just curious what is the worst that could happen aka just large blobs on solder?

 

[JonJ678]

Realistically your data is gone. This is essentially why backups are a good idea.