HDD PCB issue.

[FallenPhoenixRA]

How would I go about fixing this? 

[themctipers]

uhh

 

you're fucked,

[AnonymousGuy]

I'd solder a sata cable to it (cut the connector off one side and strip individual wires) or the PCB where it connects, then get the data off.

 

Or try to find a used drive and swap the PCB, but I have no idea how easy a PCB swap is.

[FallenPhoenixRA]

I was told that the bios chip for every hard drive is unique.  If I were to switch a PCB out with another one it wouldn't know where all my data was.  So I will try what you suggested.  I have a fine tip soldering iron I can use.  Thanks.  I thought about soldering in the beginning but I didn't know how to solder the Sata cable to the PCB

[Windows7ge]

20 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Or try to find a used drive and swap the PCB, but I have no idea how easy a PCB swap is.

I'm not 100% sure of this either but I believe on that circuit board it has a cache memory which tells the read head the start and stop location for strips of information. That information is stored in cache unless you instruct the drive to wipe that cache. So by swamping out the PCB would likely cause the drive to not know where the data starts and stops on the disk making it unusable.

 

He's better off with the soldering option. Radio-shack has cheap little soldering irons.