jbarnes19112
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My Seagate passport external USB HDD was plugged into the computer when the machine froze up. After hard resetting the PC, I haven’t been able to detect the drive in Disk Management or see anything in the BIOS.
I removed the drive (ST5000LM000) from its external case/USB adapter and plugged it directly into a machine through SATA, bypassing the USB adapter, but it’s still not being recognized by the BIOS.
I’m hoping someone can tell from the audio recording whether this is something wrong physically wrong with the disk internals, or whether only the PCB is damaged.
If only the PCB is damaged, is it possible replace it with an identical board and move the firmware chip from the old PCB to the new one?
I removed the drive (ST5000LM000) from its external case/USB adapter and plugged it directly into a machine through SATA, bypassing the USB adapter, but it’s still not being recognized by the BIOS.
I’m hoping someone can tell from the audio recording whether this is something wrong physically wrong with the disk internals, or whether only the PCB is damaged.
If only the PCB is damaged, is it possible replace it with an identical board and move the firmware chip from the old PCB to the new one?