Data Recovery Forums - Help & Discussions

makaza · Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 1

I have a damaged PCB on a Maxtor Maxline 111 7L250 So 250GB sata HDD which I need to replace. Three questions:

Is the replacement of such a board straight forward - i.e simply screwing the new on on or does it require specialist tools?

Does any one know of a UK supplier? The PCB is labelled Sabre/ Sata/ ROHS with the No 302006101.

Any help would be appreciated. Smile

- Angie

honglake · Guest

simply screwing it directly.
You can find the donor PCB easily in the UK PC market

vicky · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 60

But you can look for local vendor or supplier of hard drive part on the internet.

mvidata · Guest

You can try replacing the board, but you might find when the drive powers back up, a clicking noise will start. This is the read heads trying to initialize. This clicking noise will continue and you will not be able to access the data.

Because drives have specific firmware codes, finding a match on this drive could be a problem. If you do replace the board, and the drive starts clicking, you may damage the firmware track on the platters.

Be careful and be prepared to lose all your data. If the data is important, I would suggest using a data recovery specialist.

Eric Lee · Guest

We actually have the HDD PCB which you need, but we are in China, we have Maxtor, Seagate, Westdigital HDD PCB, and so on, you could search "HK Mingdi" in google, then you could find our company information.

Pls be careful when you replace the PCB, but if the data is too important, we suggest you to find a data recovery specialist. Smile