Our recommendation is to stay away from this kind of action. It is possible that the printed circuit board contains firmware that instructs the drive on how to operate. This firmware is specific to the drive in question, and it is written at the factory. Installing an incompatible printed circuit board from the same model of hard drive, even if you are able to locate one, may result in irreversible media damage. The only hard drives on which we can attempt data recovery are those that still contain all of their original components.