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phil22: couldn't agree more. But this HD was not mine, it's from a friend I tried to help out. Non-technical users have no idea how fragile their digital data are. fzakbar: thanks a lot for your helpful answer. Clarification: Donordrives did make a (free) chip transfer but it didn't work. They...

Hi, This is my report of an attempted disk controller replacement. It may be useful to other readers. I have a defective 640 GB drive Samsung HD642JJ rev A, 16M with controller board Trinity R006M rev05, BF41-00184B. It just went dead at power-up. No noise, no smoke, nothing. Posted a question...

Hi, I have a defective drive Samsung HD642JJ rev A, 16M with controller board Trinity R006M rev05, BF41-00184B. See photo. When powered up, the drive does absolutely nothing, no clicks, remains ice cold -> seemingly draws no power. There was no incident, it just failed at power-up. No visible...