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Thank you all for your replies.

As Harddrivespecialist indicated, it was a TVS short on the 5V line. I removed the surface mounted part and the drive immediately worked. I backed up all data and ...

Unfortunately no.
I have sent too many out, even with a big deposits, very few came back.

Fair enough. I'll save the begging for when desperation sets in.

Do you know any other sources for Sam ...

I might, but I keep my Samsung parts for internal use, not for sale.

What if I swap it and then send you the whole drive in return? I'll still pay for it, but you can have it back. I just need a ...

First thing to do: get a new drive to copy your data to, when you get your drive going.
Second: if there is another short on a board, and drive has no protection, it could cause very bad (expensive t ...

In this case you probably have TVS shorted.
Search this forum or online for your answer.

I am guessing this is you
http://forum.hddguru.com/wont-boot-with-hdd-connected-t13553.html

and I had ...

If your drive spins up, its less likely a PCB problem.

If I plug it into a computer's CPU, the system will shut down as soon as I try to turn it on. (It momentarily takes power and then completely ...

Are you sure your PCB is bad?

Sure is a tough place to be.

Story goes like this:

Was using external ATA enclosure, but the enclosure was not powering up any hard drive I put into it. (The en ...

I need the PCB for this harddrive. I don't know which numbers matter, so here is a bunch. I live in Northern New Jersey.

SP1203N REV. A
LBA 234,493,056 1200GB PAO

PSVCX1G4B90445
NIDEC F03521 ...