external hard drive blew up

[lovepussy]

i have a nexstar 3 external hard dive, inside is a seagate barracuda 7200.9 300 Gb hard drive in wich a small microchip or diode has fried, just wondering if i brought an identical hard drive and swaped the circuit board on top over, i might be able to recover the info on the hard disk or is every circuit board unique to each individual drive?

 

[G0AOZ]

Certainly swapping out circuit boards can work on some occasions. They do need to be from identical drives, and also you stand a better chance of it working if the board revision or version number is the same. Bear in mind that the blown components might have damaged the drive motor...

Good luck.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[edfair]

Or that components inside may have caused the the failure and a new board will shortly be rendered inoperative also.

Within a production run of a particular drive there may be several revisions as improvements are made.