pc techs- hard drive help

[someone904]

hi there, need some pc help.
what happened was i was digging up in my pc one day, and well.....the hard drive was not screwed down. so while moving around, the circuit board below the hard drive sparked off on the case, now it tries to come on, but keeps restarting.as far as i can see, only one component has burned off, trying to solder one back on might need someone with experience, or was thinking to change out the board with another and see if that works. basically all my data is on it, any advice would be appreciated. thanks
the drive is an ide maxtor 3.5 series. 40 gig i think

[singh is king]

i Think you should, replace the board beacuse if it sparked on the panel it can mean that u either fried your motherboard or damaged your harddrive and, if is your hard drive well i am sorry because you might not be able to recover anything from your harddrive. but you can call this guy he is one of the best in Computers his number is 371-6100 ask for randell tell him videsh put u on to him and goodluck.

[someone904]

nothing is wrong with my mother board. its the board normally found below the hard drive that has the problem.i'll call him tomorrow. thanks

[FullStop]

its the board normally found below the hard drive that has the problem.

what??? you mean the front panel switchboard? I doubt its that, just wire in a switch to your motherboard, if you are still getting the same problem, it very likely the motherboard. also could be the harddrive BTW

[stephengobin]

change the mainboard on the harddrive, copy off your data and then get raid of your harddrive, you dont want it damaging your other parts...

[bassotronics]

yep carry d hd buy a pc tech an see if u can get the board on it changed...i had this problem a while back, jus my hard drive shorted out burning the board on it, and also the power cored(melted) there was smoke coming out of my pc...llol

[someone904]

ghostbusters, not the front panel, look below your hard drive and u'll see what i'm talking about, anyone has one of these, so i can swap out the board??

[M_2NR]

i think he referring to this:


u can replace that, basically do what stephengobin, said.

[someone904]

yep, thats it.i already got a new sata hard drive, using it now. but i need one of those oldies, lol someone must have one. lol

[FullStop]

orr, the underside of the hdrive, get a similar drive and remount, when i say similar, i mean same model and capacity, you might even get away with one thats twice the capacity of yours, what kinda harddrive is it, brand and model?

[FullStop]

get raid of your harddrive

funny..raid...

[Sky]

yep carry d hd buy a pc tech an see if u can get the board on it changed...i had this problem a while back, jus my hard drive shorted out burning the board on it, and also the power cored(melted) there was smoke coming out of my pc...llol

Cored?

That board is the hard disk controller. Find the drive's model number and put it up. Someone need to do you a favour if they have the same model and swap theirs with yours for you to get back your data. Also check the technician recommended. PC techs usually have tons of dead drives lying around for this purpose.

[bassotronics]

yep carry d hd buy a pc tech an see if u can get the board on it changed...i had this problem a while back, jus my hard drive shorted out burning the board on it, and also the power cored(melted) there was smoke coming out of my pc...llol

Cored?

That board is the hard disk controller. Find the drive's model number and put it up. Someone need to do you a favour if they have the same model and swap theirs with yours for you to get back your data. Also check the technician recommended. PC techs usually have tons of dead drives lying around for this purpose.

i meant cord

an i threw away dat hard drive already..lol..bought a new one, now thing one givin me a hard drive error. The error is a S.M.A.R.T error, it says that when it's booting

[HCCA]

yep carry d hd buy a pc tech an see if u can get the board on it changed...i had this problem a while back, jus my hard drive shorted out burning the board on it, and also the power cored(melted) there was smoke coming out of my pc...llol

Cored?

That board is the hard disk controller. Find the drive's model number and put it up. Someone need to do you a favour if they have the same model and swap theirs with yours for you to get back your data. Also check the technician recommended. PC techs usually have tons of dead drives lying around for this purpose.

i meant cord

an i threw away dat hard drive already..lol..bought a new one, now thing one givin me a hard drive error. The error is a S.M.A.R.T error, it says that when it's booting

The S.M.A.R.T error is a good indication that something wrong with the drive. Should change it asap to avoid data loss. Had bought a Maxtor 500GB last year and got a SMART error upon booting, turns out the drive almost was dead. Changed under warranty.

[bassotronics]

well i got the samsung, and my pc tech said nothing aint wrong with the drive, when he brought back my tower the error was gone, but when i reinstalled windows 7 x64, it said *WINDOWS DETECTED A HARD DRIVE ERROR, PLEASE BACK UP YOUR DOCUMENTS* something like that, i'm still under warranty, but like the man don't want to change it jed, i read online that the hd could fail anytime, i'll lost all my smallville episodes

[HCCA]

well i got the samsung, and my pc tech said nothing aint wrong with the drive, when he brought back my tower the error was gone, but when i reinstalled windows 7 x64, it said *WINDOWS DETECTED A HARD DRIVE ERROR, PLEASE BACK UP YOUR DOCUMENTS* something like that, i'm still under warranty, but like the man don't want to change it jed, i read online that the hd could fail anytime, i'll lost all my smallville episodes

Same error i got with mine. Get it replaced fast.

Or for good measure you can download a free software called HDTune and run a scan on it. Is a very good utility for hard drive diagnostics.

[bassotronics]

yea man tnx, i doin a scan rite now

[someone904]

no one have or know someone with an old one??