Hard Drive Repair | Circuit Board Replacement 

Wassap what if i broke the bios ?

just curious, if i had the same issue with the broken connectors but i don't care to recover my data can i just replace the pcb without swapping the bios chips?

@ryanvox1 I do believe so but you might have a corruption issue down the road with artifacts from previous writing but that's me just speculating.

Bios would be on p.c. memmory.

@johnsarab4500 Sure, but there is also a bios chip on the hard drive that is essentially the ID for the drive. Without it, there is no way to call up the memory as it's saved. It's basically the road map or decoder for the drive drive.

Do you think i can swap the board from different size but same manufacturer?

how do you do that?

@@teachermichaelt.d. You have to go online and search for your board and locate the bios chip on the board. Then you need some skill to heat the chip free from the bad board and heat it on to the new board. You can find videos about how to here on RU-vid. But if you don't have any experience doing this, you should call a computer repair shop and let them swap the chip. I don't think it will cost a lot of money. I've heard a price around 50 bucks should do it.

@@eriksrensen6369 nice one for speedy response. I think I have the skill, I tinker with RC aircraft and their electrics. However, if that chip cannot be replaced, is there another way of activating the circuit board?

@@teachermichaelt.d. As I understand, you say you have the skill to replace the bios chip. And now you ask if the chip can't be replaced? It doesn't make sense. The chip CAN be replaced if you know how to do it. I think you should let a repair shop do it for you,

@@eriksrensen6369Or You can use EEPROM Flash Clip to transfer data.

Thanks for watching! Glad to help!

I realise this was a year ago now but I still want to know how helpful. DID YOU ACCESS THE DATA ON THAT HARD DRIVE.???

yep

Hi Patts, I wish that I had an accurate answer for you on this. Looking at some of the comments, there seems to be varying levels of success in replacing the PCB. It's sort of a gamble as to whether or not it would work.

I do wd blue hdd4tb. board use is REV A 002

I am not sure if they would work. Do they have the same brand of board? On mine, the boards were identical.

@@themostlymikeshow2582 I just subscribed I just got done earlier today replacing the printed circuit board on my old hard drive. I found an identical printed circuit board on eBay for 20 bucks. I bought it and replaced it but did not installed in the computer at this point. Believe it or not I got an email from the seller they were telling me that I must change the BIOS chip on the board or resoldering or something like that. So at that point I was glad I did not install it in my computer. So I'm sitting around here thinking about this and I stumbled upon your video. Hopefully when you replace the furnace circuit board everything works fine. I don't know anything about resoldering a bios chip but I think I'm going to put my hard drive in my computer and see if I can recover the data it's been sitting out for five years because I had some broken pins on my old printed circuit board. Watching your video makes me think I'm not going to have any problem recovering that data. Keith

It will not work. Even if you both found and successfully transfer identical board on your hdd. Whats important you use the same bios. Some tech try to transfer the bios chip to other good one still 50-50 change. The best thing to do is try to find and replace the bad component.

Brother did you find a solution for that? If you have please also let me know

@deskharisma please do tell me if you have found a solution to that

@@zaryabkhalil4316 unfortunately not yet, the disk is still dormant as for now

Bro did you find a solution to your screws stuck in holes .?? Let me know I can help.

@@dfsilversurfer no bro

@@anoop000111 how are they stuck . Did u round out the screw? Either way try a very hot soldering iron without solder out inside screw head to heat screw up as hot as you can . A little smoke from around screw is ok just not alot. When you have it as hot as possible without destroying anything, quickly put into frost free freezer briefly like 5 or 10min don't freeze. Try unscrew while still cold. Repeat process. If screw rounded fill with metal putty, put screw driver in for shape then leave couple of days to go hard. These have worked for me

salam.try this: put a little soft plastic in the screw head and start unscrewing.

not posible

Yeah, I was just getting started when I made this video and had lots to learn about types of music and how to mix sound. Thanks for watching and the feedback!

dude, you didn't even tell us if it works for you or not

Tell us please if it works

Yes, but because the data was top secret in nature, I couldn't include it with the video!

@@themostlymikeshow2582 Did you swap over the bios chip?

@@socalpirates3655 he had to. You can’t just put them on and say yup that’s good

@@bobbo2576 that is *NOT* true. Most hard drives we do not have to do this. Only some drives require that and it's mostly SAS server drives. Normal SATA hard drives will work with any random PCB that's compatible.

@@Sabrinahuskydog well I tried a swap and it didn’t work. It spins and runs but still not showing on pc or device manager.

Your fun at parties.

How do you do that? Video link?

@@arsynic4202 If you went to parties you'd know they'd never discuss this there.

@@edism this was 8 months ago

@@arsynic4202 8 months is relevant because since then you've realised your comment is dumb and unoriginal?

Gosh PUBG Lila, I wish that I could help you with that. I have put drives in before that I had to "teach" the computer where to recognize it, which there were RU-vid videos about. But I never had issues again after doing that. You mentioned that the SSD is spinning and not making any weird sounds. A solid state drive has no moving parts and wouldn't make any sounds at all. Aside from that, I'm no computer expert. I just tinker with my own stuff. My channel mainly revolves around mountain biking and tools. I'll look around and get back to you in the comments here if I find anything. Sorry I couldn't be of more help to you. Thanks for watching!

@@themostlymikeshow2582 First, thanks for that instant Response, that was really very nice of you . Well my question is very simple if my SSD gets detected only once per 20 times trying , and when its finally detected i open the partitions i see my files everything is fine, but few seconds later it gets undetected again . [ i use usb connector to connect it to another laptop ] Well , this means the problem is in the PCB board ? Or the disk itself ? I'm trying to get my data back .