Broke component off circuit board of HD501LJ 500GB hard drive while sliding another drive in below it. Any chance of recovering the data on the drive?

The component can be replaced if you can find an equivalent part and have experience soldering, or know someone who can solder. It would normally be easier to find someone who has the same drive or to buy another drive of the same model and just move the circuit board from the working drive to the not working drive, copy the data off of it, then move the circuit board back. Or you can just keep the working circuit board on the drive and continue using it as you did before.

unless you can access your 500gb portable hard drive you wont be able to recover any data you have on it
is the connector on the hard drive or the motherboard
if you have more than one usb out put you might be able to connect your portable hard drive
if you have any spare sockets on your motherboard
or you could get usb 2 or 3 card they are cheap and easy to install you can buy these on Ebay very cheap

if you need more help with this or if i have misunderstood the problem post a reply
hope this helps

It can be repaired just use a low heat soldering iron, and use heat sink clips, so that the heat will not
transfer and burn other components. make sure all power cords are removed from the board. use a
wrist ground strap to dissipate any static buildup that can damage components on the board. good luck!

There is a chance that you will be able to get back some of your inaccessible data, provided those items were not overwritten (if you continue saving more data to the drive).

First things first: STOP using the hard dive that you want to recover data from in case you may quite possibly ruin your chances of data recovery.

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Remember - Do NOT try & write anything back to your hard drive until you can recover your data safely!

It is highly unlikely that it will work. A circuit board from the same make and model hard drive would be a better choice, but I think a fire damaged hard drive would not work with a functioning circuit board. It depends upon how much heat the hard drive was subject to.
There are companies that can recover data from faulty hard drives, but it will cost you an arm and a leg for their services. Depending upon how valuable your data is, I suggest you get a quote first.

Hello,

I work in data recovery and have seen a lot of these drive pass across my desk. As a rule, the failure is usually on the drive circuit board of the hard drive.

If you need the files on the drive, your best bet is a data recovery pro. Reply back with your location(Country, State and City), I'll refer you to a pro near you who can recover your files.

Hope this helps FixYa,

Chris

The hard drive could be damaged but the USB adapter case electronics is OK. Therefore the computer can see the USB device (adapter case) but not the hard drive. If the hard drive makes a clicking noise or you cannot hear the hard drive spin, then the hard drive is definitely faulty.

There is very little chance you can recover data from a faulty hard drive.
There are companies that can recover data from faulty hard drives but it will cost you an arm and a leg for their services.

Good day sir, chances are your hard drive is done, but I think its the interface circuit. You may need to dismantle it, get the drive unit inside and use it as your separate internal hard drive. Get your files. feel free to ask again, send me your progress if possible. hope this helps. thanks

If the HDD is not detecting in the BIOS then It’s seems like to be a firmware issue on this particular series of HDD
for Model: ST3500620AS Firmware: SD15 Barracuda 7200.11 500GBytes

The one & ultimate way is to contact the nearest seagate center in your location to get the data back up & if your drive is under warranty then mostly it will be free of cost. (Not Sure about it)

Well you should have gone in and marked the sectors that you think are bad, by formatting it odds are you wiped the data off it, you can try a low level recover but I dont think your going to find much. Sorry format means format.