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JTG Systems
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JTG Systems
Electrical damage usually only kills the circuit board. Your data is likely safe inside.
We are the highest-rated computer company in Niagara.
Lightning strikes, power outages, and wrong power adapters can fry your hard drive's electronics instantly. JTG Systems specializes in PCB repair and micro-soldering to bring dead drives back to life.
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Old hard drives (pre-2005) allowed simple board swaps. Modern drives do not.Calibrations specific to your disk platters are stored on the board.
Replacing the board without transferring the ROM chip can render data permanently unrecoverable.
A power surge enters through the path of least resistance—usually the power cable or USB port. The good news is that hard drives have built-in "fuses" (TVS Diodes) designed to blow and cut the circuit before the voltage reaches the storage platters.
We don't need to fix the drive to "like new" condition; we just need to repair the power path long enough to extract your files. This specialized board-level repair is faster and safer than opening the drive itself.
Did you smell smoke or see a spark?
Distinct smell of ozone or burning plastic coming from the PC or drive enclosure.
Hard drive does not spin up at all. No lights, no noise, no vibration.
Black soot or popped chips visible on the bottom circuit board (PCB) of the hard drive.
The device caused your home circuit breaker or power strip to trip immediately.
Computer turns on but cannot see the hard drive in BIOS or Disk Management.
Immediate visual sign of component failure. Unplug instantly and do not test again.
We use multimeters to trace the 5V and 12V rails to identify blown protective diodes (TVS) and fuses.
We either repair the damaged board soldering or source an indentical donor PCB matching the drive's revision.
CRITICAL STEP: We desolder the 8-pin ROM chip (containing unique calibration data) from your dead board to the donor board.
With the drive powered again, we immediately clone it to a stable image file before extracting your data.
Electrical damage is terrifying but often recoverable. Let our micro-soldering experts handle it.