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[divergav]

Hello all, first time on here and you'll be able to guess why I found you. I have a dead heard drive. Its an Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 drive that came in a LaCie box. I mistakenly connected it is a different power supply and low and behold it died.

That was a few months ago and through a lot of searching the web I came across this website. I eventually found an identical drive (a few months younger, but everything was the same) and bought it. I transferred the PCB and the old drive fired up. All well and good, except it didn't mount.

I then tried to remove the 5V diode as instructed on another post on this forum. That though hasn't worked. So I have a good PCB and a bad one. Am I right in assuming I need to remove one of the chips from the original PCB to run the new board on the harddrive?

I'm ok with swapping boards etc, but I don't rate myself at soldering. If I bought a new PCB would I still have the same issue in that I'd need to swap the chip?

Or could I send both boards somewhere and someone could replace them?

I'm based in the UK so sending overseas is not an issue.

Thanks for any help guys.

Gavin
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[fzabkar]

It's the 12V TVS diode that usually goes short circuit.