Hard drive spins but does not read

[NeoShinobi]

I am trying to get data off my external hard drive so I removed the casing it came with. I tried to read the hard drive off varies computers. I even swapped PCB and BIOS chips. It still does not read. Can anything identify what else could be the problem?

Hard drive:
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-ST2000DL001-5900RPM-Internal/dp/B005ZI2HRQ

 

[ElectrO_90]

have you plugged it directly into your PC, or do you have a laptop?

 

[BadAsAl]

A lot of external drive enclosures use encryption so only that model enclosure can be used to read the drive. What model do you have?
Also, did the external drive stop working and that is the reason for removing it from the enclosure?

 

[NeoShinobi]

A lot of external drive enclosures use encryption so only that model enclosure can be used to read the drive. What model do you have?
Also, did the external drive stop working and that is the reason for removing it from the enclosure?

It burned out summer 2012 and I bought this hard drive back in 2010. Ever since then I come back to this hard drive to figure out what I can do to extract anything from it.

 

[NeoShinobi]

have you plugged it directly into your PC, or do you have a laptop?

I forgot to mention that it is a 3.5 inch hard drive. And yes I have connected it to my motherboard.

 

[ElectrO_90]

Drastic measures, buy exact same HDD, swap over the board on it.
Has been known to work.

 

[NeoShinobi]

Drastic measures, buy exact same HDD, swap over the board on it.
Has been known to work.

Swap the board or the platters?

 

[ElectrO_90]

if you open the hdd case up, consider it corrupted and will never come back to life.
Only changing the board on the back.

 

[NeoShinobi]

if you open the hdd case up, consider it corrupted and will never come back to life.
Only changing the board on the back.

I mentioned in the initial post that I swapped the PCB and moved the old bios chip onto the replacement.

 

[ElectrO_90]

Well then, the only way to get the data back is to give it to a professional company who will charge you $1000+
I think its truly dead.

 

[RolandJS]

Without full image backups of that HD back in its hayday, the HD and its data - very likely dead.