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I have seagate barracuda 7200.9 st3802110A 80gb and need to recover data for a customer. Can any one help please. The old have a few books she want to retrieve that took her years to write
 
I have a Seagate 7200.7 (80GB) lying here but doubt the board will match up.
 
What exactly is wrong with the drive? Describe its symptoms so that it's easier to determine if you do in fact needs a replacement PCB. I have stock of these btw.
 
grpc12 said:
I have seagate barracuda 7200.9 st3802110A 80gb and need to recover data for a customer. Can any one help please. The old have a few books she want to retrieve that took her years to write
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Hmm the majority of my drives from around that time are WD I do have a ST3160811AS(160GB) 7200.9 if that would help you? Not sure if its the same board on them though
 
Try some PC repair shops, hopefully they would be able to lend a hand :) Good luck!
 
There seems to be a common misconception that you can just plug a replacement PCB onto a faulty HDD and it will work again. There are a few things that needs to be considered:

a) There are many components that can fail. Read/write heads, motor, media (platter) damage, firmware, PCB etc. You need to establish which part is actually causing the problem. No use replacing a component that isn't actually faulty.

b) You can't just put on a new PCB, it won't work. Even if the board is identical, on modern drives the drive will not initialise and will not function. Adaptive information, that pertains specifically to that individual drive, is stored in ROM on the PCB. So if you swap the PCB with a new one, you need to move that adaptive data too.

c) With some drives, if you put a non-native PCB onto the drive, you will cause even more damage and complicate the matter further.
 
South_Bit said:
There seems to be a common misconception that you can just plug a replacement PCB onto a faulty HDD and it will work again. There are a few things that needs to be considered:

a) There are many components that can fail. Read/write heads, motor, media (platter) damage, firmware, PCB etc. You need to establish which part is actually causing the problem. No use replacing a component that isn't actually faulty.

b) You can't just put on a new PCB, it won't work. Even if the board is identical, on modern drives the drive will not initialise and will not function. Adaptive information, that pertains specifically to that individual drive, is stored in ROM on the PCB. So if you swap the PCB with a new one, you need to move that adaptive data too.

c) With some drives, if you put a non-native PCB onto the drive, you will cause even more damage and complicate the matter further.
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Yeah but as far as I know its fine to do it with identical boards for the seagate 7200.9 series and have done it with success with these drives.

If he doesn't want to take the risk he should get hold of you, or www.intratec.co.za(only data recovery company I've used) or there are a quite a few others around. He's probably looking at around R1000-R1500 if they can get his data back.

My 2c Intratec are very good from my experience with them and basically you only pay them if they can recover your data which is a big plus
 
SomeoneEls said:
Yeah but as far as I know its fine to do it with identical boards for the seagate 7200.9 series and have done it with success with these drives.

If he doesn't want to take the risk he should get hold of you, or www.intratec.co.za(only data recovery company I've used) or there are a quite a few others around. He's probably looking at around R1000-R1500 if they can get his data back.

My 2c Intratec are very good from my experience with them and basically you only pay them if they can recover your data which is a big plus
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True, this line of drives won't get damaged from a non-native PCB with the incorrect ROM, but certain drives are very fussy.
He's welcome to contact me if he gets stuck, but maybe we can give him a DIY solution depending on the situation.

From my dealings with Intratec I would imagine the quote he would get from them would be in the region of between R4,000 and R5,000. I get a lot of customers that approach them first (as they are the most established DR company in CT) but reject the quote as it's not affordable.

All DR services are, or most certainly should be, a "No recovery, no cost" service, as it's nonsensical to want to charge if you don't recover anything :)
 
South_Bit said:
All DR services are, or most certainly should be, a "No recovery, no cost" service, as it's nonsensical to want to charge if you don't recover anything :)
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Why is professionalism and service like this so hard to find? South_Bit, our telecoms industry needs YOU!
 
yeti said:
Why is professionalism and service like this so hard to find? South_Bit, our telecoms industry needs YOU!
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+1
Been a while since I last dealt with Intratec, from what you say sounds like they're taking advantage of their position as the most established player in the Cape. Will definitely give you a call if I ever get stuck!
 
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