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 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
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.
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!
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.
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..
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!!
I have a Seagate 1TB SATA drive die in my computer. BIOS stopped detecting it. Tried using in other position of power cable and SATA cable. Still not running. I opened it up and the head was in the middle of the disk. I moved it over towards the hub and it now ran but drive was getting pretty warm. I pulled the card off the drive and all the connections to the head and motor were dirty and corroded. I cleaned them all with an eraser and now drive runs cooler and quieter but only show up in explorer drives I can't access. I ended up buying an external 2.5" & 3.5" SATA to USB adapter to make the testing and repair easier. I ordered an identical working drive off of eBay and it even has the same firmware and circuit card. My board version is Rev A, new one I am waiting on is Rev C. I am so hopeful it will run and show up in the BIOS when I install it.
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.
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?
I try to repair a 2,5“ seagate (it makes a periodically sound and after a specific time the sound stops)! First I made the same mistake (I did not swap the bios chip). Afterwards I swapped the chip, unfortunately the hard drive didn’t start(no „sound“ no power, nothing) 🤦♂️😟😟
Can we do this operation with copying firmware with an external programmer, like Ch341a, and SOIC programming clips instead of physically swapping the chips?,The chips are standard spi flash chips, can be read and program with an external programmer.
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?
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
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.
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?
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...?
paul daniels has done a couple of these were it was just one diode on the drive board that had died so that could have saved the guy some effort were that the fault!
A bit late, but, I recently had my seagate exos internal 16tb drive stop working when my desktop pc was idling. now if i try to boot my pc, it will hang on the "detecting drives" bios screen. if i plug the exos into my external adapter. the drive spins up as it should, sounds like its reading, then will make weird repetitive noises for a few seconds, then stop reading, but stays spinning full speed. my laptop will detect the drive model ONLY, after a couple minutes, but can't see the contents, or show the drive in the partitions program of windows 8.1. The drive has less than 100 hours of run time on it, and i just finished transferring all my valuable data to it as its only backup. So years and terabytes of data will be down the drain if i can't get this drive working again. I always made 2 backups of my data, but this was a fresh start on a brand new drive to consolidate all drives into just one. My other data drives were getting too old to trust functionality much longer. I bought this EXOS drive new from amazon. The EXOS drives are laser welded casings, and would need to but cut around the weld, in order to get to the typical screwed on cover found on most HDDs.
i have two hard drive the same motherborad model one with 150 gb and the secend 320 gb can i save the 320 gb hard drive by replace the bios chip from the 150 gb to the 320 .... please reply and thnx
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
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 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?.
Thank you for sharing sir, I have the same problem with that , seagate 500gb , ill try to be replaced a burnt components but dont know the value. And i doubts if it is running after changing.
A computer technician who works like a surgeon. Amazing. This what we all need.
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 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!
Can u please tell me we need same model harddisk or just same model pcb is enough???
@@theviralshorts9747 I dont know, I bought same model disk and had success. PCB may not work because its programmed for a different disk.
@@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
As usual, clean work from generous men.
God bless you. It works for me. You really save a critical situation
thanks for the great info and i learn a lot today about HDD,ONCE MORE THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE TO THE PUBLIC.
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.
Sorry I don’t have any info to help you here, but curious if you ended up figuring out a fix?
R-Studio or Drill Down recovery software programs.
The guy is living legend
Thank you man
Thank you for your video. I get back my daughter's childhood video.
Thanks brother, you are the real master, keep it up and all the best.
brother you are the best teacher
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!
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!
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.
If I have the same revision of the bios and I only swap the pcb. Is there any risk of damage to the disk?
Great work like Mr Rossman
Nice clear explanation, thanks!
This guy knows more than a doctor…..
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.
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..
Awesome video dude. I love it.. You covered both issues I have and showed how to fix it. Thank you bro! I'm subscribing!
To be honest with you brother I am not into fixing electronics but I love your videos
Peace
Awesome, very useful
It's amazing sir can I use any hard drive card of same company. Woll it work. ?
Kindly update
Thanks for the no nonsense video. Much appreciated
thanks
can we take backup and program to other bios like laptop bios ?
I like your work love from India ❤
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!!
Wow what a great video with a vital information
nice! If it is same FW version do you still need to swap the chip?
have you found the answer?
Hello. Is BIOS chip resoldering needed even if donor PCB has the SAME EXACT bios version (twin drives)? Thanks
have you found the answer?
I have a Seagate 1TB SATA drive die in my computer. BIOS stopped detecting it. Tried using in other position of power cable and SATA cable. Still not running. I opened it up and the head was in the middle of the disk. I moved it over towards the hub and it now ran but drive was getting pretty warm. I pulled the card off the drive and all the connections to the head and motor were dirty and corroded. I cleaned them all with an eraser and now drive runs cooler and quieter but only show up in explorer drives I can't access. I ended up buying an external 2.5" & 3.5" SATA to USB adapter to make the testing and repair easier. I ordered an identical working drive off of eBay and it even has the same firmware and circuit card. My board version is Rev A, new one I am waiting on is Rev C. I am so hopeful it will run and show up in the BIOS when I install it.
u make it look easy bro
Hello , thank you for your share .What is the transparent gel you use before heating the board please ?
Flux
POWERFULL tools WORKSHOP AMAZING. thanks for sharing
Do all of them need to have the bios chip removed?
This is what I need. Thank you sir
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?
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.
How bout replace bios chip with another board hdd? Should replace too?
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.
WOW so the BIOS chip didn't get damaged when the old power board got damaged (was it overvolted)?
thank you, I wish I saw your video before I ruined 3 hard drives !
How did you ruin them?
Thanks for great information 👍
GOOD WORK MY TEACH
How much AIR and HEAT to be applied to remove the 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 😊
Informative video
Awesome.
Awesome, thanks for making this episode lots of info #Legendary
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?
my PCB has integrated BIOS With Main controller IC , what to do after swapping this?
you still the best 😊
I'm in this journey. For WD red 6TB. Should I switch the ROM or try first without switching?
Great!! Thanks for sharing!!..it's so useful for me. Let me try with my Seagate hdd that's not recognized by my laptop.
Great information !!
Wow... your macro camera is amazing. What's that??
I try to repair a 2,5“ seagate (it makes a periodically sound and after a specific time the sound stops)! First I made the same mistake (I did not swap the bios chip). Afterwards I swapped the chip, unfortunately the hard drive didn’t start(no „sound“ no power, nothing) 🤦♂️😟😟
What would you charge the customer for this service?
Micro Center is charging $2500 USD
Very Good
Another wonderful work. Thanks for the info.😇
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
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?
Is the firm ware on two Barracuda ST500DM009 hard drives the same? This video leads me to thoughts they are different.
Can we do this operation with copying firmware with an external programmer, like Ch341a, and SOIC programming clips instead of physically swapping the chips?,The chips are standard spi flash chips, can be read and program with an external programmer.
probably a dumb question but does the board HAVE to be for the same model and BIOS chip?
Great video! One question. You mention setting the hot air gun to 350 degrees -- is that Celsius or Fahrenheit? Thanks for the great information!
Still waiting!
Celsius
Soldering tin need to be heated to over 300°C to melt
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?
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
Woh perfect
nice info bro your a good teacher !!!
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?
Amazing, mantull um, suwun.
Excellent work.
thanks heaps for the video :)
What is the gel you used to remove the bios chip from the new board.
Probably soldering flux
Isn't there a method to extract the BIOS data with a computer without physically changing the BIOS chip?
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.
How much do you charge for this type of service? For the labor if the customer provides the parts.
Why isn't it possible to read all information out of the BIOS Chip and flash all information to the other board? (for example with a CH341A)
have you found the answer?
How much should a repair like this cost? I just had a guy quote me over $1k because of a bad pcb on a hard drive
Exellent job sir
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?
We should do this even if the p/n no is same??
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...?
paul daniels has done a couple of these were it was just one diode on the drive board that had died so that could have saved the guy some effort were that the fault!
what are you using to magnify the board onto the screen? I need one.
Microscope bruh
@@lakmalsiriwardhana he means the exact make/model.
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A bit late, but, I recently had my seagate exos internal 16tb drive stop working
when my desktop pc was idling. now if i try to boot my pc, it will hang on the
"detecting drives" bios screen. if i plug the exos into my external adapter.
the drive spins up as it should, sounds like its reading, then will make weird
repetitive noises for a few seconds, then stop reading, but stays spinning full speed.
my laptop will detect the drive model ONLY, after a couple minutes, but can't see the
contents, or show the drive in the partitions program of windows 8.1.
The drive has less than 100 hours of run time on it, and i just finished
transferring all my valuable data to it as its only backup. So years and
terabytes of data will be down the drain if i can't get this drive working again.
I always made 2 backups of my data, but this was a fresh start on a brand new drive
to consolidate all drives into just one. My other data drives were getting too old
to trust functionality much longer. I bought this EXOS drive new from amazon.
The EXOS drives are laser welded casings, and would need to but cut around the weld,
in order to get to the typical screwed on cover found on most HDDs.
i have two hard drive the same motherborad model one with 150 gb and the secend 320 gb can i save the 320 gb hard drive by replace the bios chip from the 150 gb to the 320 .... please reply and thnx
Great it's really work
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
Brilliant job as always. Awesome! Say hello to Big Boss for me. :)
Is this the case for all seagate drives?
Thank you
my bios is in a BGA chip, how much do they charge for such a swap?
If you don't care about the data, what terminal commands can you send to the new board to get it to work again?
have you found the answer?
@@gaborm4767 No
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
this is a great job-.... congrats
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?.
i have another hard disc (scsi) hard disc at 3 tbytes in size? can u have a look at it please? thanks
Thank you for sharing sir, I have the same problem with that , seagate 500gb , ill try to be replaced a burnt components but dont know the value. And i doubts if it is running after changing.
Did it work?
Yes It Worked For Seagate
consider data not important, if i just swap board without flash the firmware, can i use it as a new disk ?
Thanks man