"Meat Plow" wrote in message
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:17:01 -0400, PeterD wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:26:59 -0700, SCIENCE
wrote:

Hey guys, my 160 GB SATA Hard Disk is not working . It just happened
when i connected to older
PC due to low watt from SMPS, than a Brilliant White Smoke came,
immediately i switched off the power supply. when i check the Hard
Disk the Capacitor has Burnt, Assuming it should not cause any damage
to the hard disk. Now i want that PCB of 160 GB Seagate Hard Disk in
order to replace the burnt one . Can you help me ? where do i get that
PCB ? Please............

Not an option, there is information about the drive platters, heads,
etc, stored on NVRAM on the card. Any other card won't hve the right
information.

Why not if the heads and the platters are the same which they should be in
an identical drive. Critical data is stored on an engineering track on the
media itself, not nvram.


I've had about a 50% success rate with this trick, and the last drive I
tried it with was 1.2GB so chances may be slim, however it won't normally
hurt anything to try, assuming the drives are identical.

You also may be able to repair the original drive, I did that once on a SCSI
drive that got a glass of water spilled on it while running. It fried one of
the surface mount motor driver IC's and I was able to find a suitable
replacement.