[slodave]

For the record, there is zero soldering needed to swap PCB's, zero. As I mentioned and another has mentioned, you do need to get the exact HDD w/FW to swap them out, if that is the issue.

Many years ago, in an older laptop, I had switched out drives, but needed to put the old one back to get data off. I quickly stuck it in, did not button things, up , but felt I could hold the drive in place long enough. Something happened and the drive dropped slightly at the end not connected. I heard a nice 'zzt' sound and that's all she wrote. PCB was fried. It does not take much to kill the PCB.

Again, lendaddy, I can recover certain drive failures. That's what I do. I do not do clean room work and leave that to the pros, but if the drive has failed a certain way, I can possibly get the data back and it would be a lot less expensive than the other route.