HDD won't boot up

Feb 15, 2018
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Hello guys!
So i have a problem.
My HDD's PCB (WD 1TB Caviar Blue WD10EZEX) is died from overheating and scorching the PCB while a watching a movie from it.
I bought a new HDD with the same type from the same online webshop and i replace the PCB to the new PCB to save my files but sadly my old HDD won't boot up but the new HDD works perfectly so i think there's another problem so my OLD HDD want to boot up when a head go to the middle on the plate it start buzzing and clicking.

The vid:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IngZpZepob1EvPPiA8-pCEfrfAl8tgjP/view?usp=sharing

The pic of the Burned PCB:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/168emsELS1US24-w0eezfKBP1wpzyR8Gg/view?usp=sharing
The yellow cirle is type of a PCB a red one is the scorthed area (not burnt or any sign of smoke or bad bad smell)

Thank you if you reading to the and please share it!

There is not to much valuable information on the disk so i dont want to spend ($500 in Hungary or 150000 HUF + 27% TAX) to save my files i just need 30 minutes to save the family pics and some document of mine but i cant do anything to get this work so please help me!
(Sorry for my english i'm Hungarian)

 
Yeah could be heads or bearings/motor trouble but it's also difficult to swap boards in SATA drives, needs some chip changes and/or firmware and realigning. Older IDE drives were easy, SATA, not so much. An properly equipped service can do it but price may be higher than new disk. It's plausible only to save valuable data.
 
I will buy the same PCB from ALiExpress it will cost about $13 and $7 for shipping maybe that will do the thing.

If i just replace the PCB it should be work alright? I mean replace the bad 2060-771824-006 REV A PCB to the New 2060-771824-006 REV A PCB
 
The PCB what you see on a video is not the 2060-771824-006 REV A but a 2060-8000039-001 REV P1 from the new donor HDD. I thinked it should be work because it's from the same (WD 1TB Caviar Blue WD10EZEX) but it seems to be not.
 
A straight PCB swap rarely works with WD drives.

"Adaptives" -- why a straight PCB swap doesn't work in modern hard drives:
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2600#p19090

Sometimes you can get lucky with a WD drive if the "adaptives" are close enough.

If you purchase a PCB from hdd-parts.com or onepcbsolution.com, they will transfer the firmware ("ROM" chip at location U12) for you for free.

http://store.yahoo.com/yhst-14437584971410/13021466.html

Check the TVS diodes (D4 and D3) first.

TVS diode FAQ :
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=86

Catastrophic failures in Western Digital PCBs:
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=1119
 
Okay so the PCB is not totaly dead because it's spinning up to the half of the Plate and shut down. The thing what (Half-Dead is in the red circle)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1194aNYgsREE-8a5C88KpZJgJDsuEYO4c/view?usp=sharing

I'ts not my pic becuse it's have a better resolution

It heating up so fast that i cant cool down with anything i have. (I pust some flour into a plastic bag and i leave it in the deep freezer for a day and after that i put it into an another plastic bag and i use it as a passive cooler and i can keep the HDD work till the pc up so can see it still working but i dont have a liquid nitrogen to keep it alive till i can save my files because it give more heat than an amd CPU what is overclocked more than 7Ghz)