Seagate PCB 100422559 Failure

PCB failures (Such as Seagate PCB 100422559) 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.

Some emails from customers of Seagate PCB 100422559 failures are listed below, along with tips for replacing & repairing.

Seagate PCB 100422559 Failures:

Q: STM380815AS – Safe Mode / family / PCB

… are no methods for drive restoration if the native board is lost” (page 9 on SeagF3_en_NET.pdf) The drive with spare PCB remains busy. PCB only remains busy as well. The two PCBs are not exactly the same. Broken is 100439888 E K818JW8D / 100422559 REV C Donnor is 100508708 C C004ALGK / 100470387 REV B My questions are : – Am I able to recover data with my donnor PCB ? – How-to enable safe mode on this drive ? – seems to work with Seagate U5 Barracuda 7200.10 Galaxy2D tools – What tools …

Replacement Seagate PCB 100422559:

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:

• Seagate HDD PCB 100422559
• Seagate ST3160215AS Hard Drive PCB 100422559
• Seagate ST3160215SCE PCB Board 100422559
• Seagate ST3160815AS Hard Drive PCB 100422559
• Seagate ST380215AS Hard Drive PCB 100422559
• Seagate ST380815AS Hard Drive PCB 100422559
• Seagate STM380211AS Hard Drive PCB 100422559
• Seagate STM380215AS Hard Drive PCB 100422559