Fried Chip on Seagate SATA PCB

[riyodj]

Hello there everyone.

I would like to ask about my Seagate Expansion Drive 1TB 3.5" problem.

My harddrive is not spinning at all. My first thought is maybe the enclosure is the problem. so i open the enclosure and i put it on my PC through SATA port. But it still doesnt spinning. So, i dissasembly the sata pcb on the hard drive and i found one of the chip was burnt.

here is the picture

Here is the link for the picture.

The question is

Is there anyway to fix the pcb with burnt chip like that??
I know to fix the hard drive is to replace the pcb itself, but i doubt if there any pcb like that to replace on my hard drive since i live on a remote city with lack of electronic things.

if im going to buy it, where can i find it and what price range for that pcb? thank you very much.

 

[drtweak]

It isn't always that easy. I have replaced PCB on drives from other drives with some success. There are other internal parts that if they have gotten fried too then your only other option is to send it into a data recovery place.

Otherwise you could look around on ebay for the exact same hard drive model number for the PCB. Just be careful though because if it is exact you can can cause more damage than good.