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:
buy this item
Send your circuit board to us.
We transfer your board firmware to donor board.
We ship the cloned donor board back to you.
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