How to repair hard drive:

Tutorial restores your hard drive: it's easier and cheaper than you feel.

When a hard drive goes dreadful, the first thing you'll possibly do is have a good old curse at the plate gods for selection on you. You then might make a decision to have a bit of a panic when you realize that you didn't back up your files.

In a moment after sweating away a few pounds, you'll most likely have a go at fixing it. Well, it's importance a shot after all. But chances are, if not you know accurately what the problem is and have the skills compulsory to fix it, you're beautiful much up poop alley.

If you're fortunate and the disk head or motor hasn't been damaged, the trouble could recline on the controller board otherwise printed circuit board “PCB”. Over and over again, when there's a power rush forward or the drive overheats, it can spoil the board. If this happens, then you can moderately without difficulty replace the PCB with one that is running and bring your hard drive back to life.

A general sign that a PCB has been in the wars is a scorch mark, but from time to time there are no visual cues to give the game away.

First things first:

The PCB may not be the trouble after all, then, but it's the one spot of the drive that you should deal with first when something goes mistaken.

If you were sensation plucky, you could just go to a data specialist and get a man in a white coat in a lab to suspiciously take your entire hard drive apart and put it all support together, in the expectancy of lifting your drive, but you'll be looking at a bill for leastways £1,000. Unless you genuinely, really requirement the files on that drive, you'll keep away from this way and go down the PCB road first.

Back to life:

Does it actually work? Well, we tried it on a drive that had unexpectedly stopped working one day. There were no awesome clicking sounds, it just wouldn't power on – the thing was dead. So, we replaced the PCB with an impossible to tell apart working one and driven to get it running again.

This wasn't after trying it on many dissimilar drives – this was the first one we'd worked on, so it wasn't an accident.

It's worth mentioning that in case this works for you, and there's a beautiful good chance that it will, once it's up and successively again, don't get idle and put it back in your PC. If it failed once, there's a possibility that it will fail again. Our advice is to relocate all your sacred files to another drive and then bin it… otherwise snap it in the trophy cabinet.

Tutorial restores your hard drive: it's easier and cheaper than you think.

Take drive details down:

Get a substitute PCB indistinguishable to your recent one, otherwise, it won't work. Note down the model number below S/N, the P/N, the firmware key, time, Site code, as well as the Main Controller IC number, which is placed on the main square black chip in the middle of the genuine PCB. In our case, it was the six-digit code near the top, above the word 'SEA GATE'.

2. Check your parts

Search hdd-parts.com plus enter the figure lifeless drive in our case, it is the 11 digit code two lines down from the main of the drive into the search box at the top of the page. This would not offer you the correct model, but look through the list of consequences and find the drive that matches every the number you noted down in the first step. Now buy it.

3. Check your parts:

The new PCB should receive about six to 10 working days to reach your destination through the post. When the mailman comes round, you should take delivery of a box with a substitution working PCB inside, as well as a Torx screwdriver and installation instructions – not that you'll necessitate this last bit. If rather is amiss, email the company and they will get back to you within a pair of days. This is a part of How to repair hard drive..

4. Remove the old PCB:

On top of the PCB, you'll see five screws between it to the hard drive. Undo them using the Torx screwdriver integrated into the kit, make sure that you do not lose in the least of them. They are pretty tiny, so once you've managed to take out them all, place them among a zip-lock bag so they don't go lost if you decide to have a break between now and the next step.

5. Attach new PCB:

Make sure you earth yourself – an easy way of doing this is to put on an anti-static wristband – and then watchfully take the substitute PCB out of its anti-static bag. Pop it onto your old hard drive, making sure you line it up with the unique screw holes. Take the screws from your zip-lock bag and screw the PCB down; ensuring each screw is reasonably tight.

6. Try out your drive:

Turn on your PC. Then joint your hard drive to your dock, plug it into the PC and power it up. If the trouble with your old drive was due to a defective PCB, replacing it should now allow your drive to be recognized appropriately. Access the files you need, and then copy them to your PC. Don't try to use the drive once this is done: chances are it might turn not working in the future. This is all step of How to repair hard drive.
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