Comment on HDD Data Recovery Options?
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
This happened to me once and I completely overthought it.
In my case, I removed the PCB from the drive and took a close look and saw a single scorched IC that I figured was the problem. I think it was a voltage regulator or something like that.
So I bought a scrap drive and tried to transplant the PCB onto my dead drive, but of course that wouldn’t be able to read my old data.
So took it into a local electronics repair shop and asked if he’d be able to make it work.
He took one look at the damaged PCB, pushed the scrap one back at me and said “yeah I’ll just replace this part.”
40 bucks later I had a working drive again and was able to rescue the data.
Where do you live that “local electronics repair place” is a thing you can casually just find? We have tons of mobile repair places, but they generally just do screens and batteries, and maybe they’ll send it in somewhere if it’s more than that.
We have a TV repair place, but I don’t know if they do smaller electronics like drives. They have to exist, I just don’t know how to find them.
brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
This is encouraging. Thank you.