So 3 of my 4 HDD just fried last night, I have been tinkering with them and they do not spin up or anything, I have found that it looks like chips on the exterior controller have been cooked from whatever, bad cable, to much power to the circuity or whatever, It seemed to be something to do with having them on the same line as I did my "EZ-PLUG", which seemed to fry my hdds. My question is how likely is it that if I find replacement SATA controller boards, HDD PCD i guess would be the right term, how likely is it that I can get my data back from these drives. The data is somewhat important and I would like to get it back since I do not think the actual platters/headers/blah blah took damage. But I could be wrong. HELPP!!! SUGGESTIONS : (.
you're likely have to going to contact someone that does data recovery locally and it might cost a decent amount. you might find somewhere online that you can ship your drives too for cheaper, regardless get a quote first and pretty much all of them will give you an estimate based on what you describe.
if you can't afford it or want to do it yourself, you can try to find the exact version of the drive you have, then do a platter transplant. i'm really not sure how complicated it is, there are videos on youtube showing briefly how to do this, but i'm pretty sure it's what the data recovery place would do. the only difference is they have all the tools and experience to do it right.