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sujoystick   02-11-2008 at 06:37:32 AM

Hi guys 3 days back my computer got shut down with smoke coming out of my WD 500gb SATA hdd , it had a peculiar smell to it. the hdd doesnt get detected. I have inquired about Data recovery which were listed in the wdc site but the prices are too steep for me to bear.
After inquiring with my office sys-admin i got to know that i can get my burnt hdd pcb repaired. So i want to figure out anyone who knows people or company in Mumbai who do such kind of repair, or a reasonably charged data recovery solution

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sujoystick   02-12-2008 at 08:47:26 AM
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any suggestions on data recovery

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apache_lives   02-12-2008 at 09:09:14 AM
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sujoystick wrote :

Hi guys 3 days back my computer got shut down with smoke coming out of my WD 500gb SATA hdd , it had a peculiar smell to it. the hdd doesnt get detected. I have inquired about Data recovery which were listed in the wdc site but the prices are too steep for me to bear.
After inquiring with my office sys-admin i got to know that i can get my burnt hdd pcb repaired. So i want to figure out anyone who knows people or company in Mumbai who do such kind of repair, or a reasonably charged data recovery solution



order another hdd (the same model) and a set of hex tools and switch the pcb's between them and then try to fire it up that way, with a little luck it will work no dramas.

Data recovery is a very pricey thing.

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teknotuck   12-29-2008 at 07:54:44 AM
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Not as simple as apache_lives is reporting sadly.
Same model yes, but you need to match more more than just model. You need to match as much as possible actually. The most critical things are Part Number of your Drive, the Firmware version of the Drive and actually the PCB board model of the drive also. Some drives are easier to swap boards than others but with many of the newer drives they are tuned and this variable data is stored back on the PCB which is part of what your attempting to swap out. I am doing the research right now for a clients 500G seagate drive that needs the board replaced and the more i read up the more im lead to the fact it might be best to just send in for repair.
The newer the drive the more this is true.

Here are a few links that might prove useful

http://myharddrivedied.com/present [...] rials.html
http://www.microswamp.com/tech-notes/data-recovery
http://forum.hddguru.com/

Best of luck
Tnt
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