You can’t swap the circuit board for this model hard drive without transferring original board firmware to donor board, with our donor board, we offer free firmware transfer.


     Procedure:
  Typical bad hard drive circuit board symptoms:
  • No power, No Spin, No Sound.
  • Burning smell.
  • The circuit board is extremely hot.
  • Power surge. connected the hard drive to wrong power supply.
  • Obvious damage on the circuit board
 For following situations , most likely the circuit boards are OK ,We do not recommend sending the board to us
  • The hard drive can spin properly .
  • Make clicking sound .
  • Being dropped.
  • Spin well but cannot be detected