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The Antitypical twostools

Hi bit of a long shot I know but a friend of mines old hard drive went belly up
Tried it in an external caddy ( to rescue the data) but to no avail ( think the circuit board is frizzed)
Looking to see if anyone would know where I could even try get a replacement board for
Barracuda 7200.7 120 Gig
Model ST3120022A

Haven't got the money to bring it to Critical Data services or the like
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Garry

K.O.Kiki

The Antitypical twostools wrote: »

Hi bit of a long shot I know but a friend of mines old hard drive went belly up
Tried it in an external caddy ( to rescue the data) but to no avail ( think the circuit board is frizzed)
Looking to see if anyone would know where I could even try get a replacement board for
Barracuda 7200.7 120 Gig
Model ST3120022A

Haven't got the money to bring it to Critical Data services or the like
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Garry

It's dead.
You're unlikely to fix it.
Accept and have a backup in future.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-word-of-warning-on-hard-disk-recovery-by-swapping-logic-boards/

Xenoronin

As above. If it is worth enough to your friend, they can send it off to data retrieval (not guaranteed to work either). Nowadays you really don't have an excuse for losing documents/photos thanks to onedrive, google drive/photos, dropbox, etc. Everything else are usually programs that can be reinstalled.

Inquitus

Sticking it in a zip-lock in the freezer has worked for me in the past, as mentioned in the linked article above, not going to be able to dump the whole HD but it might give you enough time to rescue anything precious like a Dissertation or some Family pics.