Easy Data Recovery On A Seagate Hard Drive With A Dead PCB 

Dude you just saved me 10TB of smoked HDD's! I can't thank you enough!

Awesome video! I was looking for a fix on my 3TB Seagate Barracuda and this really helped. It works now! :)

Thanks for the video. I might give this a try.

Thx, you are my hero! I removed the diode with pliers and now my dead seagate barracuda 😄backup drive works as before! But I understand that its life now hangs on a thread so I will do another backup.

Great video, thanks .. I have a Seagate Barracuda 1TB external drive that won’t power on ... any idea for an easy fix on this would be appreciated. The drive was dropped only a few inches so I’m hoping it can be fixed. Thank you.

very nice video! I've learned what TVS diodes are ... and have found the 5v one completely short on my 3TB Barracuda -- nice! I bought a time capsule with a defective drive so, for sure didn't care if I made the problem worse. One question though ... outside the super infrequent mains transients and so ... there shouldn't be any other reason for this part? Right?

my hard drive is not seen by the computer but the motor spins. do you think a board swap would work?(2011 hdd) also do you think the heads in the drive would need to be replaced?

Blew a couple 8TB HDDs while installing a new PSU, didn’t swap out the modular cables and expected it to work. Any suggestions for how to remove the diode without the hot air soldering tool? Can I use a normal electrical soldering iron to heat up the connections?

I have a seagate 7200.9 that does not spin as well. I checked the TVS diode and it reads fine. It's not blown or shorted. What now?

I've had 2 hard drives fail this year, a Seagate and a Hitachi. I only need it to run long enough to copy my files to a flash drive, so this method will hopefully work for the Seagate. The Hitachi, on the other hand, clicks and thats it. On top of that, the data is encrypted by GandCrab 5.2. Any ideas for that?

Hello thanks for the great video I have the exact same issue but do not have the original PCB anymore. Is there a work around? Thanks!

Thanx....for this helpful video..

Actually, is replacing the board without the bios results in the drive being not able to read a single sector (reporting sector unreadable) or is there something worse in my case? I have a Seagate 1er164-302

I don't even have a PC but this was cool.

Hope this isn't a stupid question (I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to tech), but is this for problems with external hard drives? My computer stopped recognizing mine (1TB Seagate) over the summer (light still came on and made noise, though) The person I sent it to says he's narrowed the problem down to the PCB and that he's going to replace it in hopes to fix the issue. Didn't want to bother him too much right now since we're both busy and the time difference is an issue (I'm out of the country), so I found this video and was just wondering if the was for external hard drives. Thank you.

ever had a drive come in that someone had hooked up to a molex to sata adapter and the adapter failed and caught fire and damaged the PCB? I've had a few like that, one of them stopped spinning up but later worked just fine until it actually died (no spin no nothing). it was a 1TB 7200.12 seagate.

Is it possible just to replace the TVS diode? Standardized surface mount TVS diodes are available from many sources. Sorry about commenting months after video was posted, but thanks in advance if you choose to respond despite that.

Is it possible to remove the memory and read the adaptive data and write it to a good board?

Thank You for the Video. I may be calling you for help. Thanks!

Exellent😊

I was playing a game the other day and my drive died and crashed my game. No warning or anything. It was my second drive so my OS is fine. But all my games and other files I can't remember are on that drive. Do you think this could help?

My question is that, how can we copy that so called "adaptive data" to a new PCB board?

Hello ,Issue Description: This hard drive was used as external USB hard drive,Hard drivve is seagate 2TB 3,5 inc.hard drive is spine up and running. I can access my drive again.all my data and transfer it to another hard drive!.

If the board that I replaced Isn't compatible and I've lost the original board, do I still have any chance to recover my data?

where are the preamps for the head stack?

Sir please help me my hard drive inside disk gor crashed ( seagate ) can i recover those datas ? please help me it very urgent

11:00 Are you soldering with 400 C?

There are some DOS-based data recovery programs, still being sold today, which claim to "refresh" or "remagnetise" the surfaces and recover data. You may have to change a BIOS setting from "AHCI" to "IDE" temporarily, before running them. Can software really correct "bad" magnetic surfaces in hard drives and get data back or are these programs just snake oil?

Man, i just found this video, i gotta ask you something that happened few days ago, The PCB from my Western digital 320Gb burned, i taked the pcb off from the hard disk and i saw that a chip with name SMOOTH is fried. Is there any chances if i find a PCB of the same hard disk, that chip could be replaced and maybe work again? Or what should i do? i mean i will not use it anymore, just wanna recover all my data and transfer it to another hard drive!. Hope u see this, to get an asnwer, i have some importart stuff inside that disk :(

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Nice video If we have same PCB can we replace BIOS