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You are very fortunate it was that simple; not an every day occurence I can promise.

95% of the time if PCB swap is required on modern HDD, then you will need to transfer the adaptives that are sto ...

Pencil erasure will remove this no problem.

I do not think that this is the problem with your drive, as Sunny has stated.

I am not sure if it is firmware from what you have said, but I have a ...

I am afraid it is more complicated then just ATA commands. While the ATA standard outlines specific functionality that is needed for the standard; the inner workings of every manufacturer's firmware i ...

Unfortunately because you opened the drive you have likely destroyed any chances of recovering data.

NEVER, open a drive in a regular room. 1 Spec of dust is like a mountain compared to the read/wr ...

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If the unit is out of warranty or you value the data more; I would dismantle the enclosure itself and extract the hard drive enclosed within. Once you have done that carefully remove the ...

Also, a PCB has a less the 1% chance of fixing the "click of death"

this is cause by a failure with the headstack of the drive. The only way to repair this is by replacing it. For that you need a ...

R in the DCM people claim is "refurb"

but thats a lie. DCM actually doesnt mean very much at all.

also EB and BB are a lie almost all WD have heads affixed at the lid (except notebook driv ...

When you put a PCB with the wrong Adaptives on to a drive; it isn't a good thing. Sometimes everything is ok, but sometimes it can corrupt your SA.

PCB hold Adaptive data specific to each drive.

When you transferred only the PCB it attempted to start up with THAT PCB's adaptive data.

This is why it clicks. Clicking is the heads attempting t ...

Dont worry about the MBR at this point. RAW recovery is what you are going to want to shoot for. If the drive identifies that is a good sign that you can still extract data from the drive using recove ...

If that PCB has a U12, I would give it a try. These drives commonly have spindle driver failure. Usually in the cases I have seen the rest of the board is intact, but sometimes the damage is too great ...

Is the drive making any strange noises? If not I suggest you just run it through R-studio, or Getdataback. You will get what you are looking for i think =)

The board isn't the problem. The only time board swapping works is when it is the board that is the problem.

In this case it is the firmware. Firmware is not stored on the board as most people se ...

Specialist is correct; PCB swap will not work for this problem.

If you purchased your drive retail; individually then you may be eligible for seagate to recover your data. I have not heard of any ...

Some of the updates are also bricking drives.

If your seagate drive was in an OEM system and not purchased individually it will likely not be eligible for free recovery.