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Seagate 250GB IDE - Fried ST3250823A
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DAE_JA_VOO
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How did you fry a HHD's controller?
buy another disk, same version number, swap the circuit boards, not that difficult, i did it with a 20G before, though technology might have changed. the board is connected to the disk by a small slide in connection-plastic-thingy. after you recover you can swap the board back and use the new 250G. take the old disk back for a warrenty replacement (hopefully it they will accept it still) and run the 2 new disks in raid. 
bdt
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Going by my pricelists, this appears to be a not so much new drive so your options may be limited. That said, I've been down this road before and if you can get exactly the same model unit, you can likely swop the controller boards and read your stuff off ..QED 
You have data you don't want to lose and you didn't make backups?
Some people never learn ...
killadoob
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bdt doesnt seagate come with a 5 year gaurantee?
there is some bad spelling and gramma in there for you as well
there is some bad spelling and gramma in there for you as well
bdt
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(a)whether it has a 5 year warranty is immaterial to his problem of getting his data off and (2)..*shrug* it's not like you're capable of better, so I don't have any expectation of you getting it remotely right in the first place.
killadoob
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did your pricelist say if it has a 5 year guarantee? was a question i was asking for general knowlgde oops i did it again
bdt
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As it happens, yes: the Rectron pricelist from 15 Nov. 2005 shows a 5 year warranty on the part. But, again I say: it's not germane to the problem at hand, being getting his data off the drive.
bekdik
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SilverNodashi
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I know this is an old post, but did you come right? I had the same problem, so I just purchased another 250GB Seagate HDD, and swapped the PCB. At least I can now access the data on the old HDD
nope, took the drive to cssi, they told me its better to throw the drive away as the heads have arced or something, the data is lost for good...so is the hdd... they also said you cant swop the boards on the new seagates as they use some new technolgy that matches pcb with cylinders...