Hard Disk Issue.

Pinkypants

Hello,

I have a back up external hard disk SATA that the "board" has gone. Plug it in and black smokes comes from it. Can see the damage electrics on the board.

The question is I have another old hard drive same make, but IDE. Can I just replace the board from that onto the SATA drive to retrieve my data?

Or is it a case of it's had it..........spend hundreds sending off for dismantling.


Thanks in advance.

fwor

Unless it has exactly the same disk geometry, cache size, etc, it won't work, as the firmware will be customised for those factors.

Pinkypants

Thanks for the quick reply. Any options open to me?

fwor

Pinkypants wrote: »

Any options open to me?

Difficult to say, because it depends on whether the failure was caused by components on the board or the internal components of the drive itself.

If it were mine (and for some reason I had not backed the data up elsewhere) I would probably take a gamble and look for exactly the same make and model of drive on eBay and swap in the board from that. But it's impossible to say what the probability of success would be...

diable

fwor wrote: »

Difficult to say, because it depends on whether the failure was caused by components on the board or the internal components of the drive itself.

If it were mine (and for some reason I had not backed the data up elsewhere) I would probably take a gamble and look for exactly the same make and model of drive on eBay and swap in the board from that. But it's impossible to say what the probability of success would be...

About 50 50 I'd say......

fwor

diable wrote: »

About 50 50 I'd say......

Really, that high? I'd guess that even the same make/model would go through several releases during its production life, and that firmware on one would not work on another. Just guessing, though...

banger9365

i think is well broken now,but if you can get the hdd out ,you might be able
to plug it in a pc to get your stuff out

fishybusiness

I would probably take a gamble and look for exactly the same make and model of drive on eBay and swap in the board from that. But it's impossible to say what the probability of success would be...

Unfortunately that won't work. There is no guarantee the firmware version will be the same, also the specific drive characteristics are coded in to the firmware during manufacture so bad sectors, head and platter parameters will be different.

Data recovery companies can often pull the firmware coding from a faulty unit to a good unit, then swap the platters and retrieve the data, but it is beyond DIY recovery

andy2004

confused?. which board is the smoke coming off of.

you said it was an external. and when you plug it in smoke pours out.

take the enclosure apart and check the actual sata hdd for any burns, the enclosure is normally what goes.

connect to your internal sata connection on the motherboard to get data off if its not the hdd damaged, depending on make and how out your computer is you may need to change the jumpers to run sata150 instead of sata300 dependant on age of pc

you didnt state whether it was 2.5in or 3.5in external.
replacement enclosure are cheap enough to buy.

Pinkypants

It's a hard drive from an external back up.

I have removed it from it's proper candy and put into another type of candy. The smoke and damage is on the actual hard drive itself. I can see it on the electric board.

Hence my question as I have another older drive same but IDE and not sata.

It's 3.5 inch.