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Has anyone ever had luck changing the circuit board on a hard drive and remove the data? My cpu died and took out the board on my seagate 500 gb drive, I found a website that sells replacement boards I would have to send mine to them to transfer firmware update. The drive platters are fine I just had a surge, The thing is all my info for all my past and present amazon accounts are stored on this drive.Just wondering if any of you had this happen before.
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Doesn't seem like it would be all that hard?

I would buy the exact hard drive on eBay and switch the boards.

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Best of luck Ripped.

Hope lesson learned. The 3 rules of computers;

Backup, Backup, Backup.

I always keep 3 backups from all computers, in case of lose, stolen or damage.

Same happened to me years ago, and said I would never let it happen again.

Good luck getting your data back.
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Doesn't seem like it would be all that hard?

I would buy the exact hard drive on eBay and switch the boards.

DIY How to repair a completely dead hard drive with fried circuit board - YouTube
The thing is, the data on the firmware chip for newer drives are unique from drive to drive, and swapping the circuit board won't work because of so. The data on the chips also needs to be transfered, and this requires some technical skills with soldering. If you're inexperienced, you're better off letting a professional handle the task.
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Default Re: changing the circuit board on a hard drive ???

I used a professional about 10 years back when I lost my data on a corrupted HD - did a manual data extraction
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Has anyone ever had luck changing the circuit board on a hard drive and remove the data? My cpu died and took out the board on my seagate 500 gb drive, I found a website that sells replacement boards I would have to send mine to them to transfer firmware update. The drive platters are fine I just had a surge, The thing is all my info for all my past and present amazon accounts are stored on this drive.Just wondering if any of you had this happen before.
CPU Died and need replace HDD board????????????????
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Default Re: changing the circuit board on a hard drive ???

It doesn't seem that the problem was with the cpu. The cpu is the hardest thing to "break" on a computer. Most cpus "break" within the first few days to few weeks or by constant overheating. Modern cpus have built-in protection, if it goes over a certain temp, it started to throttle down, of the temp still increases, the cpu is completely shuts-down the computer to protect itself from high temp damage, its different from laptop to desktop computers.

The thing that you want is doable but you would need to buy the same model hard drive and flash the bios firmware onto the new hard drive. If you have someone do it, its going to be very expensive. I have never done it or dont know anyone who has done it so there is very few people who know how too. Since hard drive prices in the 500gb range are very cheap.

Even if after you get your data back, I think that computer might be damaged in other locations, like the motherboard.
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i ment to say power supply not cpu.
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Default Re: changing the circuit board on a hard drive ???

oh well that makes much more sense, not cpu, but the psu.

I would think the cheapest and quickest way to solve your problem is by just getting the info straight from the HD and put that info on a new one.
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