I'm looking for some advise here. My sister has one of the Seagate bricked hard drives that came with her HP computer. HP released a firmware fix but can only be applied to the drive if it is in working condition. Unfortunately we weren't aware of the issue until it happened. I've already tried recovering the data from it using the Nokia usb cable trick but that did not work. Now I am thinking the best option is to replace the logic board. They are fairly inexpensive right now, I can get one for around $30 I think. But I am only about 80% sure that it will work. I'm thinking that since it is a firmware issue that the problem lies in the logic board. Does anyone have any experience with this? Should replacing the logic board bring the drive back to life? I don't have the board with me at the moment so I can't say the model no./size/revision/firmware/etc. I remeber that the model number started with "ST" and ended with "AS", so it is probably similar to this one.
Also, it seems like there were a few different numbers that needed to match when replacing a Seagate logic board. Could somebody remind which ones they were? I think I need to match size, model no., and site no.
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