Question Reprogram Seagate BIOS Chip

[fabiiretro]

Hi there,

so here's the thing. The cache chip on my sister's Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 9YN164-500 (FW: CC4B) burned out (i.e. got immediately hot in that area and it smelled burned), so I went ahead and bought a new PCB with the same model and same revision.
The problem is, I accidentally broke off one leg of the BIOS chip while transferring.

Is there any way I can retrieve their data?
I thought of buying a third PCB (because I probably ruined the second one already lol) and trying to reprogram the chip with a firmware .bin file I found for that hard drive model with the same firmware on another site (I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention their name). However, they do say in a README, that they don't know if the firmware works or if it's corrupt because their drive failed for not only electrical damage.
Would that be possible? Is there another way I could get a hold of the (working) firmware I need?

Are there other possibilities, as I don't have the financial capacity as a student to shell out at least one grand for a platter swap if that would even do anything.

Suggestions would be highly appreciated!

 

[fabiiretro]

To get the data from it.

 

[fzabkar]

In conclusion: I now have a molten chip that hopefully the local repair guy can somehow save on tuesday which will probably set me back a grand plus I got a new screw because I lost one at home

If the ROM is the only problem, and if it can be repaired, then you shouldn't be paying for a data recovery, only a drive repair. I would expect to pay no more than $200.

If, OTOH, the drive has additional internal problems, then $1000 would be in the ball park.

 

[fabiiretro]

Well, I'm hoping to not pay a whole lot for it but based on the quote I got (1280) when the chip still looked like a chip with just a missing leg, I wouldn't be too sure about that.

In the end, I'll just have to wait and see about that