Toshiba SSHD MQ01ABD100H - Firmware / Data Recovery Issue

Hello!
I have mission critical data on a SSHD Toshiba MQ01ABD100H that was in a Sony VAIO for less than a year that decided stop working overnight. All I care about is the data. A seemingly reputable professional data recovery company evaluated the drive, told me it was a "mechanical failure", said they could recover the data, and gave me an $1500.00 quote. One week later they told me something different; they said that the platters and the heads appear to be okay, and that the problem appears to be on the pcb and/or flash drive, and they did not know how to recover the data. They told me they consulted with Toshiba too. I asked them if they replaced the pcb board and they would not tell me, or answer any more questions. I have the drive back in my hands and am searching for options. I really believe my data is recoverable if the platters are okay, right?
Here is what I know for sure; the bios on the Sony VAIO Windows 8.1 machine, does correctly recognize the drive. However it does not boot, and is not accessible or recognized with the Windows 8.1 UEFI cmd prompt options. The drive is not encrypted. After putting the drive in an external enclosure, and connecting it to another Win8.1 machine, the drive starts up with no extreme sounding noises. It very softly clicks a few times as if the heads are searching, but then calms down, and continues to spin quietly. I have installed Data Rescue PC3 software which recognizes the drive and its attributes correctly but cannot read it or clone it. I have Partition Wizard mini-tool software which recognizes the drive correctly, but shows the disk as being unreadable.
This is what I am trying to do. I am looking for a donor drive on my own, with the same model, date, firmware, site, pcb number, hdd code.
Now here are my unknowns and I appreciate anyone's insight with these. If I change the pcb board myself, I still most likely need to transfer the firmware to the new board, though I may try it without doing so. I do not know where the firmware is stored, is there a rom chip or is it stored in the Flash drive. I am not certain if, with this model of SSHD, if it can be done with chip replacement or with software? If it is stored on the Flash drive how can that be accessed independent of the HHD portion? Does the Flash drive itself have to be harvested? But what if the flash drive is bad, how can the firmware ever be recovered? Any ideas anyone??? ... other than shooting myself in the head, just kidding. I believe this may be a common issue that often goes unsolved.

This is an update to my post.
I've figured out that the firmware on the MQ01ABD100H drive is stored on the main controller board, the the Marvell 88i9317-RA12 controller, on the pcb board.
There is a controller chip for the flash drive as well but everything I have read leads me to think the firmware is on the main controller chip. I have located a used drive with a pcb board that appears to be an exact match to my pcb board, with every number matching up. I ordered it and will be swapping boards sometime next week.
I am hoping and praying that this will work. If it doesn't at least I have a the donor drive to send along with my non-functioning drive to another data recovery company, who is a little more versed in "hybrid" drives. I am guessing that the previous company that I sent my drive to just could not track a donor drive.
I think I got lucky, cause I found one, myself, after looking for a week. It is being shipped to me now.
Any thoughts?

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