PCB failures (Such as Hitachi PCB 0A58730<\/b>) affect thousands of hard drives every year and often result in permanent data loss. A hard drive may suddenly fail to power on, and a computer may not detect that it is plugged in. Some failed hard drives will also show up in computer BIOS with incorrect brand\/model information. PCB failures can also cause physical issues such as read\/write head failures, and many PCB failure symptoms overlap with the symptoms of other physical hard drive issues.<\/p>\n
Some emails from customers of Hitachi PCB 0A58730 failures are listed below, along with tips for replacing & repairing.<\/p>\n
Q: HDT721010SLA360 PCB – yes that bloody thing again!<\/b><\/p>\n
Hello all, first time on here and you’ll be able to guess why I found you. I have a dead heard drive. Its an Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 drive that came in a LaCie box. I mistakenly connected it is a different power supply and low and behold it died. That was a few months ago and through a lot of searching the web I came across this website. I eventually found an identical drive (a few months younger, but everything was the same) and bought it. I transferred the PCB and the old drive fired up. All well and good, except it didn’t mount. I then tried to remove the 5V diode as instructed on another post on this forum. That though hasn’t worked. So I have a good PCB and a bad one. Am I right in assuming I need to remove one of the chips from the original PCB to run the new board on the harddrive?I’m ok with swapping boards etc, but I don’t rate myself at soldering. If I bought a new PCB would I still have the same issue in that I’d need to swap the chip?Or could I send both boards somewhere and someone could replace them?I’m based in the UK so sending overseas is not an issue.Thanks for any help guys.Gavin_________________Photographer with a tinkering nature<\/p>\n
To repair a failure board, the simple way is swapping the failure board with a replacement board. Donor boards on HardDriveParts.com are listed below:<\/p>\n
PCB failures (Such as Hitachi PCB 0A58730) affect thousands of hard drives every year and often result in permanent data loss. A hard drive may suddenly fail to power on, and a computer may not detect that it is plugged in. Some failed hard drives will also show up in computer BIOS with incorrect brand\/model information. PCB failures can also cause physical issues such as read\/write head failures, and many PCB failure symptoms overlap with the symptoms of other physical…<\/p>\n