Seagate Drive not responding - Quick and easy fix
Вставка
- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Quick and easy fix on a Seagate drive that is not responding. Quick fuse replacement.
Tools we use:
ruSolut Monolith adapter
ruSolut TSOP adapter
ruSolut Visual Nand Reconstructor
Hakko Soldering Iron FM-203
Hakko Rework Station 810B
PC-3000 UDMA
DeepSpar 3
DeepSpar 4
Adobe Premiere CC
Adobe Photoshop CC
Camtasia Studio
Cellebrite UFED (Latest version)
MSAB XRY
Magnet Forensics IEF
X-Ways
All graphics created by Data Rescue Labs
?Music By? • Licence:
George Street Shuffle by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommon...)
Source: incompetech.com...
Artist: incompetech.com/
Need data recovery service? Forensic service?
Contact us today info@datarescuelabs.com
Data Rescue Labs Inc
145 Traders Blvd East Unit 8
Mississauga, Ontario
L4Z 2E5
Canada
Copyright (c) Data Rescue Labs Inc 2017
1-877-681-4131
www.datarescuel...
Quick and easy, yeah of course if you have these
ruSolut Monolith adapter
ruSolut TSOP adapter
ruSolut Visual Nand Reconstructor
Hakko Soldering Iron FM-203
Hakko Rework Station 810B
PC-3000 UDMA
DeepSpar 3
DeepSpar 4
Adobe Premiere CC
Adobe Photoshop CC
Camtasia Studio
Cellebrite UFED (Latest version)
MSAB XRY
Magnet Forensics IEF
X-Ways
or we can get more than one instead of getting all of the above
This is not quick and easy
EXACTLY!!!
It’s not that hard either.
Compared to what it could be just remove a diode
Exactly! I could guide people step by step and someone will still get mad 😆😆
When you need extra tools it's especially not easy
Well, looks like this is where my journey ends. For everyone that has been thoughtful and kind. Thank you. Looks like with the unexpected crash of this hard drive and the mistakes that I have made, I will not be able to retrieve this data. I will hold onto this drive-in case technology changes in the future or if I become independently wealthy and can afford a “professional recovery service”.
To all the negative people out there. Humans are human. We make mistakes even when we know better. My father has been in computers for over 50+ years in the military. I know a lot about computers and backups. Life got in the way. I have a lot going on right now and the last thing I need is smart aleck comments about backing up data.
Anyhow, I hope everyone has a wonderful day and wish all of you the best of success in life.
I wanted to say thank you among all the negative comments, similar drive and problem fixed with solder iron and ceramic needle nose! Took me less than 10mn to have my powerless hdd up and running!
People like to complain. If anything, you were able to take what you needed from the video and use it to recover your own data. That was my whole plan. I am glad this video helped you
Out of curiosity what is the removed parts purpose? from similar projects it seems to possibly be a type of voltage regulator or eprom chip, second I did not replace mine. what risk is involved not replacing it?
It’s a type of a fuse, there are two on each board. You can remove them both but the board won’t be protected from any further voltage spikes.
Thanks a lot for the video, I had the same problem and solved it in less than 10 min
thanks for the video. Is never easy to do data recovery. Is quick and easy if you know what you doing...I am certainly not but I appreciate your knowledge.
Thanks mate, my HDD is working again.
Finally someone who isn’t mad at me 😆😆
I know I have the same problem, but since I'm not from your profession, I'm wondering how much such a repair could cost? I live in Germany and Croatia.
Send me an email: info@datarescuelabs.com
happy labor day dude lol
i have a 2TB seagate drive that spins up and the reader arm just clicks and the drive does not show up was hoping to fix it my self being the drive only run for 3 mouths and died not sure what happen
You will need a professional recovery service, there is no DYI on failed heads. You can contact us for a quote info@datarescuelabs.com
I have a srd00f2 that I used for Xbox external HDD the led blinks but it won't be detected when I plug it into windows it says usb failed but you can see it in device manager usb failed..but windows wont show the hdd.
EASY???!!! NO WAY!
lol... quick and easy... LOLLOL
Thanks...
I will be geting my rework station tomorrow. May I ask what heat setting is best for removing this PCB Board Firmware Rom Chip? It has a digital setting with three numbers on it so I would assume I could set it to the exact setting. I need both settings one for the soldering device and one for the heat gun part. It has two settings.
Use flux and add some low melt solder onto the legs of rom. Then 375c @ 60 flow should do it but all hot air stations are different so you will need to find the right number for you. The settings I gave you should be a good start
Mines doesn't even power up, no light, how can I fix this,
remove the fuse/diode
What did it cost the customer for this repair?
all my diodes had readings, i only got a beep from a piece labeled L7 which i looked up and its an inductor. is it the normal behavior of inductors, beeping when continuity tested?
I sold a 2 TB Seagate HD to a guy who is using it for his PC and it it not powering up...but it was working when I was using it...
They can be easily damaged by moving them around. That's usually why portable drives stop working. Hence why I'm watching this 🙄
Are you sure we can put in any diode?
mine says GP525 diode and finding same replacement isn't working.
Quick and easy fix 😒... Somebody get this guy a dictionary...😴
😆😆
That's actually a lot easier than I thought it would be, just gotta want your hard drive back really bad.
can you get the whole board if possible from any online website?
You can but you still have to swap the rom chip
Recap:
1-Looks like my original bios was erased.
2-Looks like my original bios was only partially copied over to the new rom.: 512K worth.
3-I have one PCB Donor Board that boots up the hard drive and keeps it running but o/s can't read the data.
4. Data Recovery Place that transferred my bios to another PCB Donor Board, said they don't back up roms and they don't have my rom to email me.
What are my options?
same problem! i have 2 hard drives same brand 3tb seagate and i switch power board and circuit board and still nothing! i dont get it?
It could be a seized spindle motor. Sometimes what might appear as a non spinning disk but if you were to put your ear on the HDD and listen very closely when applying power, the drive would make a very faint one single tick. Could also be other components on the pcb that failed, either the fuses or other diodes
If the data is important, we can have a look at it. Contact us via email krzys.stanko@datarescuelabs.com
I don’t have the shit to do this
i have exactly a harddrive with this pcb....a 2tb seagate....i replace the diode but nothing helps....hdd wont spin!
Heads might be stuck to the platter. Or another issue on the board. There are also fuses on there
I came here to watch a video because I am having a HDD problem. Then, at the end of the video, I see it is THE SAME 3 TB drive from Seagate (st3000dm001)!! What are the odds of that? I wonder if they were poorly designed? Anyways, mine tries to run but it speeds up, then cuts off... speeds up, then cuts off.
Seagate is shit
Guys just leave it plugged in and wait for ages and it will appear. Get a new hd asap and plug it in and then wait for ages again untill it appears and back it up. Just leave the hard drive alone forever Don’t panic 👍
nothing is quick and easy to ur average joe out there I don't own a saughter gun or a ohmmeter especially the ohmmeter I can't even check which diode is even open lead
Another Update:
I just got my Donor Board. The drive spun right up and sounds great, no crashes or nasty sounds. It does try twice to read and then gives up so I think there is where swapping out the BIOS is going to work, right? I'll go ahead an order a rework station now to perform the procedure.
I have a segate HDD (external) 1TB. The drive is not responding and now i am upset and depressed as i have saved all my son's images fight from his day 1 and i have no clue how to recover them. No one will be helpful in india for sure Without charging 35k (approx $500). If they had to do the same u did in the video thdy will charge the same amount. Canu guide me in any way to get my son's images back. I wanted to surprise him on his 8th bday sith all the images but i lost hopes.
What causes the hard drive to stop responding?
There are many reasons. This one here was caused by voltage spike
I have a Seagate Archive HDD (Seagate (STEB8000100) Expansion Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0 for PC Laptop). It was in an external enclosure. I have several external hard drives including a WD. I may have accidently used my WD power adapter for my Seagate Archive HDD. Nevertheless, my Seagate Archive HDD is no longer working.
I bought several of these Expansion Drives. I opened another one and it is a Seagate Barracuda instead of a Seagate Archive HDD. I was just hoping to have a Donor for parts but no luck there.
I went ahead and ordered from an online website the exact match PCB boards to see if I can get this hard drive working by myself. I am not looking forward to sending this off to a Data Recovery Service, but I am thinking about it.
If someone could help me troubleshoot this a little beforehand to see if I can get this working without having to send it off that would be greatly appreciated.
Here are my thoughts.
The drive is completely silent, there was never a horrific ending to the drive. Like it is spinning up and crashing, knocking, beeping, whatever. Just one day I plugged it in and nothing.
Now here is the odd part. It seems like something is barely connecting because in keeps connecting and discounting in windows. You hear the Windows Notification that it connects and then disconnects. Sometimes it stays connected and you can see in “Computer Management” under “Disk Management” the drive. It is like it is barely connected on a sub low level.
What will happen is that in “Disk Management” a window will pop up and say you must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it. MBR vs GPT. Of course, after doing this, I get the error “The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error”.
Disk 2, red down arrow, Unknown, Not Initialized
Most of the time the partition data or the available space does not show up in disk management, but rarely it does show up, i.e., size of partition and available space to create a disk partition. However, even when that shows up it still gives me the error “The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error”.
My thoughts are that the drive is fully functional, but I may have blown a diode or something. The hard drive was sitting in an enclosure and had an extra PCB Board that was a bridge between the power supply and the hard drive. This other PCB board on the external enclosure is working perfectly. I popped out another Hard Drive from another enclosure used it on the bridge and everything works perfectly. So, I am not sure how the Seagate Archive HDD failed even when the External PCB power supply which held it did not.
This is what leads me to be that somehow the PCB Board is no longer working on the Seagate Archive HDD and this may be a simple solution. I ordered a new PCB Donor Board and was hoping all I must do is transfer the “Bios” and install the new Donor Board and everything works.
My question is troubleshooting.
Before messing around with my vital “Bios” chip. Can I just swap out my Donor Board to just see if power is restored and the drive spins up? I know I will not be able to access the Data however, I would be able to confirm that my other original PCB board is the main culprit. Then proceed to swapping the “Bios” chip on the Donor Board.
Will swapping the PCB board without swapping the “Bios” chip cause any “Data” loss or damage the Seagate Archive HDD?
Troubleshooting Steps
-1 Order Donor PCB Board
-2 Swap Original Board with Donor Board without Swapping Bios Chip
-3 See if Seagate Archive HDD powers on whatsoever, spins, etc.
-4 If powers on and spins up, swap out Bios Chip
-5 If Bios Chip is swapped and drive is still not responsive begin consultation with “Data Recovery Service”.
Another question is do I simply just send this off to a “Data Recovery Service” I would hate to swap out my Bios chip and make it more difficult for them to recover. However, if it is a simple PCB Board Swap and Bios Swap, I would prefer to do it myself.
Please feel free to give me any other pointers. I am just trying to perform some basic troubleshooting tactics before sending this drive off for an expensive recovery. I just have a feeling that this might be as simple as a PCB Board/Bios swap because the drive was never dropped, and in perfect condition. It is not that old either.
Thanks!
Are you still taking clients?
Of course, email me krzys.stanko@datarescuelabs.com
Sad Update. I replaced my bios chip on two new donor boards with no luck on both of them. However, I don't think I was placing it right because I could never get a solid connection. It would always pop right off. Hopefully, I didn't destroy the chip because I know it will be party over if I did.
I have sent the pcb board and bios chip to a repair facility for them to install the bios chip for me and send it back. Hopefully they still can but they might not be able to. The pins are still in great shape however, you can't read the numbering anymore therefore don't know which side to face the chip. yikes.
I already contacted gilware and they said don't bother sending us the drive if the bios chip is fried. crazy huh. Aren't these companies suppose to be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat? I know its expensive and all.
My question is i know i did everything wrong and its all my fault. Are there any options left? Can someone read the rom off the platters and reprogram a new bios chip and install it for me? Can someone do a platter swap in a clean room?
Please Advise without kocking my head off preferably. Be somewhat gentle.
Email me. I’ll give you my address and you can send me your drive, board and fried bios chip.
krzys.stanko@datarescuelabs.com
we're not all electrical engineers chill out
Another Update:
Okay I got my ROM back. Well, I got my ROM back that is a New ROM. They said that my original ROM was too damaged, but they were successful at transferring the ROM information from my Original ROM to this NEW ROM. They checked twice that it was transferred over successful.
Well of course it did not work. The drive is seen in windows but barely. It is doing the same thing before like the original problem. Completely and 100% silent. (I think all windows recognizes is the bridge that it is connected to).
This is the weirdest part. I ordered some more PCB Donor Boards and if I put any of those on this hard drive the drive comes to life. It boots up twice or tries to read the drive twice and gives up.
What dose all this mean? Did some how the original ROM get corrupted and is permanently damaged?
Long Shot
They suggest the file system could be corrupted and that this is almost 100% fixable. Connect PC Max 3000 and either get lucky and extract the data by bypassing the software lock because the drive is in defensive mode or rip the data off raw but will take a while (same as bypassing the locked codes).
Recap:
1-Original PCB Board with Original BIOS in perfect shape (something happened):
-Drive would not boot up, completely silent, not moving or humming at all. OFF.
2-New PCB Donor Board with random bios that is already on the board (Testing):
-Drive boots up and tries to read but gives up and fails.
3-New PCB Donor Board with Original BIOS (I installed it myself, botched it up)
-Drive would not boot up, completely silent, not moving or humming at all. OFF.
4-New PCB Donor Board with New Rom (Installed by professional, bios information transferred over)
-Drive would not boot up, completely silent, not moving or humming at all. OFF.
…
What does all this mean? Something is corrupted with the original bios? How does the drive power up and try to read with a random donor board with whatever BIOS that came with it; but when it is connected with the original bios its dead as a door nail?
I will be getting back my original pcb board and original bios/rom. I’m sure the ROM is in ruff shape but the information has been transferred over to a new ROM. So that is good at least.
What are my options at this point? Is my data lost forever?
Yeah... not the solution I was loooking for. This is too complicated.
You can always send it to if the data is important. I’d be glad to recover it for yoy
NOT QUICK and EASY! you have to have a microscope, battery tester, etc....
fucking complicated even for a technician
Algorithm
PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE SAUDERING IRONS ETC...You said quick and easy. I'm stressing and thought this was a viable SOLUTION!.....NOT!!!
What you can take away from this video is that all you really need to do is remove one of the fault diodes. You would still need a multimeter to test them at least! But you can remove both if you don’t have one
Not really quick and easy
OP mislabeled and edited video to seem "quick and easy" takes board off , does volt test, finds diode needs replaced. Pulls out soldering iron . 🤦♂️ THUMBS DOWN for misleading this is not an actual "quick fix" the normal user would not be pulling apart their hard drive and soldering .
If you don’t have the skill to do this, you can send it to us for recovery. What you need to take away from this video is that you can do this without tools, if you listen to the whole video I did say that all you can do is remove the broken TVS. You will at the least need the multimeter to check which one is damaged
why not just use online😂😅
I was very disappointed in this video... This title should say, "An easy fix at a professional tech repair store"... This is NOT something most people can do so this is NOT an easy fix... Pissed me off.