Hello,

I know there are a couple of threads out there about this but nothing very detailed. I have checked YouTube, official websites, and checked pricing. I am looking for something kind of...

No one has given up. I have two pros helping me right now. Waiting on a tool to dump my rom, then they will evaluate it. One thinks he still can get my Data back.

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Thank you for the compliment. You have some information on doing a platter swap? However, I will never do this because I have been instructed to not open this drive under any circumstances by an...

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Okay I got my ROM back. Well, I got my ROM back that is a New ROM. They said that my original ROM was too damaged, but they were successful at transferring the ROM information...

Thanks for the positive feedback, need more people like you in this world. Thumbs Up!

Thank you for that. I am hearing I could send it to ontrack, and they could possibly do a platter swap or read the data from the platters on an entirely new drive and bios and get my data back but it...

I will be geting my rework station tomorrow. May I ask what heat setting is best for removing this PCB Board Firmware Rom Chip? It has a digital setting with three numbers on it so I would assume I...

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I just got my Donor Board. The drive spun right up and sounds great, no crashes or nasty sounds. It does try twice to read and then gives up so I think there is where swapping...

From what everyone is telling me the Bios Rom will need to be swapped out. My personal opinion is that the PCB Board is dead. Once I replace it, i think it will come to life. At least I hope so. I'll...

Was your drive an older drive? I have heard that you can just swap out the PCB Board on older drives and you could boot up your drive and read your files. However, now I believe the BIOS chip that is...

Yes, I know that rule. I guess I am Human and I make dumb mistakes. Lesson learned. Well probably not, might happen again. Sad.

I see. Well I ordered a new one. I will pop it on and see if it boots up. If it does and comes to life I'll swap out the BIOS chip so I can read the files and quickly make a backup.

Otherwise I...

Hardware Controller, you mean PCB Board on the Hard Drive?

no code. just says it can't be done.

“The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error”.

Yes I see the drive in disk management. However, I can't do anything with it. It wants me to initialize it via mbr/qbt. Then it says it can't because of an i/o error.

"did the same thing" meaning this drives does absolutely nothing. Does not spin up and is dead silent. No spin up, no beeps, no knocks or clunks. However, windows does pick it up on a sub low level...

I think the WD could have damaged it yes. However, it only damaged the drive and not the bridge within the external case. The Bridge works find with another hard drive that is from another exact same...

I have a Seagate Archive HDD (Seagate (STEB8000100) Expansion Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop). It was in an external enclosure. I have several external hard drives...