Hard drive won't spin

[chris0147]

Hi guys,

I need your help as I has got a problem with the hard drive. Few months ago the hard drive was working fine when I was working on it to get the partition table to restore as it has been corrupted due to raw format. When I ran the test disk, it took me ages to complete the method to restore the partition but I doesn't realised that the hard drive started to stop working when the recovery program did not complete the process to recover the partition.

I have had a look at the PCB board to find out why the hard drive won't spin. I suspected that the spindle motor wiring on the PCB to engaged with the motor axis to allows the platters to spins, is burnt.

Here's the picture:
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/176/burntp.jpg


I would like to get advice how I can measure the PCB board using with the digtal multimeter.

Can you please tell me how I can measure the PCB board using with digital multimeter to find out whether if the spindle motor wiring or the PCB board is dead??

Any advice?

 

[chris0147]

please can someone help?????????????

 

[MidnightDistort]

It does look burnt, but i can't tell if thats part of the PCB board or the other part of the drive. Most likely you'll need to replace the board but if it's a newer drive it gets pretty hard to find a replacement which is most likely what you'll need. I don't remember what steps you need to take, but if you google PCB board replacements you should get a tutorial on it. See if anyone has one selling on ebay (most likely a dead drive where the PCB board works).