Data recovery from Seagate U series 5 which seems shorted

[LordGarfield]

Hello,

I have a major data recovery problem with a Seagate ST 3201413A P/N 9R4003-307. When I connect the power to the hd and power up the system, the system boots up for a millisecond and shuts down immediately. When I try to power up the system again by using the power button, this fails. Only when I disconnect the external power cord from the power supply and reconnect it and then push the power button the system boots up again for a millisecond. With my system there is nothing wrong, if I disconnect the internal power cable of the hd and boot up the system everything works fine.
I guess the hd is shorted (short circuit)
My question is if there is any way to recover the data on the disk which is very valuable to me. (I know, I should have had decent backups)
Can I open up the hd and recover the data which is still on the magnetised disks in any way? How do specialised, professional companies recover data? Do they use special tricks or have special tools?

Thanks alot in advance for your valuable replies.


tank you,

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[technome]

Never even think of opening a modern hard drive. I ran an old Seagate mfm drive for months without a drive case cover but with a modern drive, a smoke particle between the head and platters will self destruct the drive.

Cheapest way is to replace the electronics board on the drive with another from a known working drive of the exact same drive model. This will work most of the time, you may have some data corruption. There is the possibility there is major data corruption, which would require sending the drive out for professional recovery, but for < $200, switching the drive electronics board would be my first move. If you have a second operating computer around, after the electronics are switched, I would hook up the drive as a secondary drive, and retrieve the data from the drive first, before starting the drive in a stand alone machine. If there is corruption, you have less to repair; operating systems like to repair on startup.