A computer technician who works like a surgeon. Amazing. This what we all need.

@cyberpope2137

Жыл бұрын

It’s called an electronics engineer, not a surgeon

Thanks alot. I recovered my 3TB Seagate HDD swapping the old BIOS chip to the new. Can't say how I appreciate your work.

thanks for the great info and i learn a lot today about HDD,ONCE MORE THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE TO THE PUBLIC.

Thanks to this video, I was able to recover a friend-of-a-friends HDD with ALL her family photos on it from her 2 kids. I bought 4 identical HDD's and attempted to swap the boards but couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. This video helped me see that the BIOS (or serial eeprom?) is necessary to swap over. After a pitiful soldering job the drive fired up and I was able to recover the data. Thank you very much!

@theviralshorts9747

Жыл бұрын

Can u please tell me we need same model harddisk or just same model pcb is enough???

@mcpr5971

Жыл бұрын

@@theviralshorts9747 I dont know, I bought same model disk and had success. PCB may not work because its programmed for a different disk.

@CarloTheImmortal

Ай бұрын

@@theviralshorts9747 maybe if the PCB is frmo the same model hard disk of the same model # of the same model PCB... I have a ST1000dm010 with a fried pcb [no dmg like in the video here] and it has pcb 100774000 REV C and I found another PCB 100774000 REV C as well but from a similar drive [both are seagate compute] however the donor drive is a ST500DM009 both are FW CC43 so I was hoping it'd work without the bios chip swap.. it didn't thankfully this series of PCB/drives dont get messed up when you switch different PCBs within the 100774000 family it seems so if i swap the bios my data could most likely be saved. other drives i tried a similar thing on [got a ton of drives here] did not work... honestly im just wondering if i tried flashing the donor board with its original drive with a firmware update of the target would it achieve the same thing? hm

Thanks brother, you are the real master, keep it up and all the best.

God bless you. It works for me. You really save a critical situation

As usual, clean work from generous men.

Awesome video dude. I love it.. You covered both issues I have and showed how to fix it. Thank you bro! I'm subscribing!

Nice clear explanation, thanks!

Another wonderful work. Thanks for the info.😇

Wow what a great video with a vital information

Thank you for your video. I get back my daughter's childhood video.

Thanks for great information 👍

This is what I need. Thank you sir

Excellent work.

Great information !!

Great work like Mr Rossman

nice info bro your a good teacher !!!

Awesome, thanks for making this episode lots of info #Legendary

brother you are the best teacher

Awesome, very useful

POWERFULL tools WORKSHOP AMAZING. thanks for sharing

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Great!! Thanks for sharing!!..it's so useful for me. Let me try with my Seagate hdd that's not recognized by my laptop.

this is a great job-.... congrats

The guy is living legend Thank you man

Very gd information thanks a lot bro

Brilliant job as always. Awesome! Say hello to Big Boss for me. :)

Amazing, mantull um, suwun.

Exellent job sir

GOOD WORK MY TEACH

Informative video

Thank you

you still the best 😊

thanks heaps for the video :)

Good job

Thanks sir i have learned alot from you i have one time probe to change the board from the hard drive but without succses i dont know that what i must to change the bios Respect sir thanks.

u make it look easy bro

Thanks man

Great it's really work

good 1 master

my PCB has integrated BIOS With Main controller IC , what to do after swapping this?

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Magnificent video.....Great work mate... i have kept an old Seagate drive that for some reason has burn marks around the main board cpu...I am glad i kept it ..will have to dig it up and look for another HD with same board...ps i was told the it has to be of the same batch of HDD s?

Thanks for the no nonsense video. Much appreciated

To be honest with you brother I am not into fixing electronics but I love your videos Peace

This guy knows more than a doctor…..

I don't know whether you respond to comments or not-however I will go ahead and ask the question: I have a 2.5 inch WD 2TB drive that was originally a C: drive. It failed with no symptoms (noise) except that it stopped working. I removed it and replaced it and the computer is running fine now. However, I still want to recover the data on the drive. I plugged the "bad" drive into a FANTOM brand USB SATA adapter and did the following: 1)I plugged the USB cable into my computer and attempted to boot it. However, the computer would not restart. 2) I unplugged the USB cable from the computer and restarted it. I pressed F2 during restart and the BIOS menu came up. I then plugged the USB cable into the computer. The BIOS recognized the "bad" drive. 3) I unplugged the USB cable and allowed the computer to restart and THEN plugged the USB cable back in. Device Manager recognized the FANTOM SATA adapter and the WD drive. 4) Disk Manager can see the drive as Disk 1: --it sees it in 4 pieces: 4a) a 529MB Healthy (Recovery Partition); 4b) a 100MB Healthy (EFI System Partition); 4c) a 1861.88 GB RAW Healthy (Basic Data Partition). This is shown as Drive D; 4d) a 513 MB Healthy (Recovery Partition). 5) Windows Explorer can see the drive as two separate drives: Drive D and Drive F. I right-clicked on Drive D and selected Properties. I got: "Location is not available. The parameter is incorrect. 6) So 4c) the 1861.88GB part is where my data is. However, it is being shown as RAW. Is there any way to recover the data without reformatting the drive? And is this the kind of problem that could be fixed by replacing the board/BIOS. I have a full production workstation available and have the necessary soldering/de-soldering skills, although I have no experience working on HDDs specifically.

@syberpunk

Жыл бұрын

Sorry I don’t have any info to help you here, but curious if you ended up figuring out a fix?

@Thomas_Hardy.

4 ай бұрын

R-Studio or Drill Down recovery software programs.

thanks can we take backup and program to other bios like laptop bios ?

Hello I have a Seagate Expansion 6TB that was plugged in a laptop charger. The PCB board it's not working, I have another 6TB working drive, if I swap the PCB, the bios has to be replaced in order to make it work? Then if it works, it's better to put the bios back on the working drive? Or it's better to fix the burned diodes on the bad board? Can this this diodes work from a 2TB drive or so?

Sir, i have same pcb with same F/w version nd all same year everything is same but i got GPT / MBR problem.... If our firmware is same so thill we need to replace Bios...?

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!

Woh perfect

thank you, I wish I saw your video before I ruined 3 hard drives !

@livenfree

3 жыл бұрын

How did you ruin them?

Would this method work, for a Seagate ST2000DM008 that got corrupted firmware during an update?

ggreat video ive got a 250gb seagate 2.5in sata hd that will not read data and i need the data off of it...it has 2 platters inside..is there any way the platters can be swapped to amother good hard drive so i can read the data? ......my concern is the two platters on top of each other..are they lined up somehow?

Trouble is, I replaced the circuit board and threw out the old one not realising that a chip swap would be required! So any options for my situation?

One question it can possible to rewrite bios i have done with tv but I'm sure about hard drive?

WOW so the BIOS chip didn't get damaged when the old power board got damaged (was it overvolted)?

Genius

I have two seagate drives that need the bios chips swapped. I bought the boards not knowing this had to be done. How much do you charge for this service? I will mail both of them in. Thank you!

Do all of them need to have the bios chip removed?

I tried moving the bios to a new board but it still doesn't work, should the chipset serial number be the same sir?

Sometimes you can just swap just the pcb. Not always tho. If you can fine the exact same drive with the same firmware revision you may be golden.

@ernestoalvarez9599

29 күн бұрын

If I have the same revision of the bios and I only swap the pcb. Is there any risk of damage to the disk?

I'm in this journey. For WD red 6TB. Should I switch the ROM or try first without switching?

What kind of diode is that? I got something like that there is an F sign on it. The SMD number is AE 7L656 any idea?

My hdd's magnetic head is crushed. Will it be enough if i replace the head with the same model's head? Or i will have to do that BIOS staff?

Hello , thank you for your share .What is the transparent gel you use before heating the board please ?

@MuncheeZRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Flux

Seagate c drive HDD PCB bios leg broken , kindly suggest the data on the disk can be recovered through platter replacement. Appreciate your advise. Thank you

This is great and I think we have the same issue. Where can we find a shop like you to fix it or can we also make the replacement at home?

I have a Seagate hard drive that powers up, spins, and the arm moves, but BIOS will no longer detect it. Disk Manager in Windows will detect that some kind of storage drive is connected, but it can't tell me the size or initialize it. I don't have it attached as a master, so the MBR shouldn't be at play. Any tips?

I need help with my Seagate HDD, it just "magically" stopped working. It makes the sound as if you've plugged something in windows but when you feel the drive it powers on for less then 5 seconds and then off but it does not make the sound when something is being disconnected from the PC. Here in South Africa there aren't any places you can take it too. I have stuff on it that I really need and I had no time to save the stuff on another drive as it was only used as a back up drive. Barely used and if it was used it would just be used to store or copy things I need and then I packed it away. I used another drive way harder than this by playing games on it etc but it still works and it wasn't bought brand new yet it lasted longer than the Seagate one

I have a Seagate 160gb hdd, which is spinning but unable to detected. How to recover data from it?

Is the firm ware on two Barracuda ST500DM009 hard drives the same? This video leads me to thoughts they are different.

Wow... your macro camera is amazing. What's that??

Im sorry to ask this, but I did swap the firmware but then its missing when I try to put hotgun... Can I replace the firmware IC or something to get the data?

probably a dumb question but does the board HAVE to be for the same model and BIOS chip?

hi sir just want to ask where can i buy a microscope with camera like yours in the video. thank you for the response 😊

This is often caused by folks plugging a HDD into a HD docking station which has had the wrong power supply plugged into it, that then burns out the board.

@whitefata12

2 жыл бұрын

how do you know if its the proper power supply? I'm currently using a docking station cuz my External Enclosure smells burnt and transferring to the docking station seems to work for now..

I have the same problem but i fixed the original pcb and the hard start spining but it shows raw partition and some times it fail to initilize got the message Gpt initialise

Hello. Is BIOS chip resoldering needed even if donor PCB has the SAME EXACT bios version (twin drives)? Thanks

@gaborm4767

10 ай бұрын

have you found the answer?

Excelent!! I have two Disks ST2000DM001 , but they have different serial numbers, Z240DE58 and Z1E6RSFX, do you think if I Switch the Bios just like you did would they work taking into consideration they are not 100% the same? Thanks!!

can it be fixed with out the old board

What mpix is your microscope camera

what are you using to magnify the board onto the screen? I need one.

@lakmalsiriwardhana

3 жыл бұрын

Microscope bruh

@demonwithglasshand

2 жыл бұрын

@@lakmalsiriwardhana he means the exact make/model.

@wharris7594

2 жыл бұрын

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How much AIR and HEAT to be applied to remove the chip?

nice! If it is same FW version do you still need to swap the chip?

@gaborm4767

10 ай бұрын

have you found the answer?

It's amazing sir can I use any hard drive card of same company. Woll it work. ? Kindly update

how to create microscope digital ?

Hi, thank you for this video. Is it possible to avoid the swap of the bios chip by using a tool like ch341? The idea is to read bios data from the old bios chip and write to the new one.

@Justkubin

4 жыл бұрын

How bout replace bios chip with another board hdd? Should replace too?

@pjds1989

2 жыл бұрын

In this case, probably not. That damaged part might not have allowed the other working parts to respond, or caused more damage along the way.

my bios is in a BGA chip, how much do they charge for such a swap?

What is the gel you used to remove the bios chip from the new board.

@livenfree

3 жыл бұрын

Probably soldering flux

when I connect my disk it gets hot and is not recognized by my computer.

I have the same problem. I have a HDD Seagate Barracuda of 1 TB with a PCB 100664987 REV "A" and I bought a donor board and installed a PCB 100664987 REV "B" that both are compatibles but my computer did not recognize it, and now seeing your video I know I have to change the Bio but I haven`t the tools to do it. Can you tell me what can I do? or if can I send it you to do the job?.

Sir, nice and very informative videos as always. Have you ever encounter Macbook Pro touch Bar Critical update loop? If yes, please how did you fix it?

Great video! One question. You mention setting the hot air gun to 350 degrees -- is that Celsius or Fahrenheit? Thanks for the great information!

@Powerman3000

2 жыл бұрын

Still waiting!

@jodezza3381

2 жыл бұрын

Celsius

@chaddino7601

2 жыл бұрын

Soldering tin need to be heated to over 300°C to melt

I have blown my seagate with the wrong power suppy adapter. Will a pcb change be enough or will i need to do both steps on this video Thanks

We should do this even if the p/n no is same??