www.deadharddrive.com

Those drives are hard to find now.

Preamp failure sounds like a typical clicking. Microchip (Preamp) can not transfer any data, so read/write heads just click.

You definitely need a new PCB and to rebuild/Match ROM info on that drive.

Upload a picture of your PCB here, good quality please. I will take a look at it and will tell you if chip is soldered correctly.

There must be a reason why you formatted that drive.
There is many of programs that claim they can recover deleted data. I am not familiar with the one you questions about.

Yes, it is possible in a lot of cases.

I have that PCB.
Check your PM.

I am not aware of anyone in Arizona, but there is a few companies in Texas.

Don not open your drive in any circumstances.
There is no tricks involved in recovering your files, you can only hurt your chances of recovery.
Your drive is displaying typical failure, which is rea ...

Where are you located?

You will need professional recovery company.

Bumping a drive should not have any effect on PCB, it usually leads to stalled motors or head problems inside a drive.

Its best to replace it with similar diode, but if you don't have one, make sure you have good Power supply, remove that diode by cutting it out, connect a drive and copy your data off of it. Remember, ...

Check diode to the right to see if its shorted.

Need PCB for:

Seagate 7200.10 250GB

ST3250410AS
P/N: 9EU142-310
Firmware: 4.AAA
Datecode: 09292
Sitecode: SU

Barcode on PCB says:
100505697 C K928B7KB

100468303 REV A

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