New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
@BlackST Thanks for your interest, but I don't need a professional repair. I'm just doing it for fun. Ettore

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
User avatar you can transport your question, to the Fun Staff session. enough is enough. Xronis T3 Professional Data Recovery http://www.t3-recovery.com

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
Allora se vuoi solo divertirti trova la soluzione da solo, non produciamo divertimento gratis. E' pieno di altri forum piu' adatti. Then if you want to have fun, find yourself the solution. We don't make fun for free. There's plenty of more suitable forums.

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
You won't be able to solve your issue/s on your own. If your data is not important to you, leave it and move on. I guess if you waited for a year for a replacement drive, data is worth something to you. Make up your mind! Don't gamble with your data!

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
@BlackST I'm new of this forum but I know the forum rules better than you. Hard Disk Recovery Lab FORUM RULES Do not New messages like "I can help you just PM me"-->just lok at "ettore, PM me with contact details" Using any other language besides English-->look at "Allora se vuoi solo divertirti trova la soluzione da solo..."

Beside that, your response is unmotivated and aggressive. You should be really desperate, what's going on, poor little man, not too much broken HDD here in Italy? Or just too few clients? Not surprising... after seeing how you can exstabilish an emphatic communication so easily. If I will ever need a professional, you will be surely the one I will avoid.

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
It's you that said "I'm just doing it for fun.". This is insulting the professionality of the pros who helped here a lot of people in many ways. You had two other clear answer from other VALUABLE members of the forum. So long and good luck. Obviously if I will ever need a customer.... P.S. about being desperate, it's not me. A year without data means two things : 1) data not important (surely) 2) can't afford a pro consult = DIY = possibility of destroying data. Your stuff, your choice. People should never be helped on these things. Period.

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This is unbelievable BlackST, asking some help for repairing a HDD in a DIY fashion (for me is equal to "for fun") is an insult to a professonal? Really? Top level professionals are often top level human beings (no, I'm not talking about you) and such people does never feel insulted from any help request, even those coming from a non professional like me. Other members of the forum have already demonstrated a wider mind than you.

Sorry for boring readers other than this black guy (a really appropriate nickname, however). From now to ethernity, I will ignore him.
Anybody can suggest some more specific hints, however?
New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
Assuming you haven't baked the original ROM, swap it to the donor PCB. If you still get clicking, the preamp is probably blown, and you might as well toss the drive out.
Preamp / head service for this series is difficult and expensive, even for seasoned pros. There are compatibility and alignment issues even if you don't ruin the platters by yourself.
New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
If I will ever need a professional, you will be surely the one I will avoid. You are a newb looking for a solution to a problem. What kind of help do you really think you will get with your arrogant and ungrateful attitude towards other members? Assuming you wanted a professional recovery, do you know the average cost of recovery on these drives? Do you know the average cost when customer has attempted work themselves?

I do not think the disk you have has external ROM on PCB, so no matter how much 'fun' you are having, if PCB is fried you will need professional help for any hope of repairing. If data is not important, simply replace your disk and forget about it.

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
@hddguy First of all I wish to apologize for my crude tone, even if I was definitively not the first, in this New. Second, I would like to thanks everybody (you included) who suggested something constructive. Third, the scope of my New was just to collect some help and suggestions, since I'm not an expert in the HDD field and I wanted to try some DIY with my disk, at my own risk. This definitively means that I don't need a professional service, othervise I'm fully capable to find it by myself.

Simply, I wish to learn something which seems very interesting. Sorry if this makes somebody angry but it's not a problem of mine. BTW, seems that the PCB has a ROM (U12) and seems that is not fried. Thanks again.

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
If there is ROM at U12, then match a replacement PCB from same family disk, preferably exact model (including the 6 digits after the WD5000KS) and swap ROM to donor PCB.

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I have a same hard drive as the one you guys are talking about with the clicking problem. The "professional" help that I was looking for was kind of expensive so I figured there will be some DIY's on this forum. I don't care if any of you take this the wrong way or not, but you got to be kidding me with your discussions. (not just this thread but the so called pros in other threads too. Sure you probably might have some expensive equipment in your shops, but it sure seems like all you do is to source the right part for the job and take your chances if some parts from a similar hard drive will fix your problems or not.

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Benassi, i dislike the way some of the data rec specs on this forum use it as a private fishing pond to get an extra job or 2 a month with 80 percent New consisting of smth like " No DIY send to pro " Or "PM me ill do it" . But what u are saying is waaaaay off. Sourcing a part and just taking a chance with repair u say ? U might as well say - oh damn , all u did was fix the god damned space shutle, whats hard in that.

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
benassi97 wrote: all you do is to source the right part for the job and take your chances if some parts from a similar hard drive will fix your problems or not. Go for it and let us know how that works out for you You don't have to backup all of your data, just the data you want to keep.

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
drc wrote: Go for it and let us know how that works out for you I will. I have a feeling that my chances of sourcing the exact part might be less than yours, but my chances of that part fixing the hard drive, is about as much of a luck as yours. :wink:

New subject: Re: WD5000KS destruction after a 12v-5v swap
You reckon? What a clown, it ain't gonna happen! PC Image Data Recovery www.pcimage.co.uk

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benassi97 wrote: drc wrote: Go for it and let us know how that works out for you

I will. I have a feeling that my chances of sourcing the exact part might be less than yours, but my chances of that part fixing the hard drive, is about as much of a luck as yours. :wink:
Actualy , ur chance of sourcing exact part is the same as ours. A lot of big boy hdd resellers advertise on the net. But without tools and knowlege that part in ur hands is just so much dead metal and plastic.

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Exactly Alexii, you are spot on! PC Image Data Recovery www.pcimage.co.ukI have a Seagate 80 HDD that I'm trying to recover data off of it for a friend. His power supply in his computer blew up sending a surge to most of his components, one of which being his HDD. Since the power supply blew up the HDD will not power on. In fact if I plug the drive into a new computer that computer will not boot. The New screen won't even show up.

If I plug the Seagate drive into an external enclosure and then try to power it on the LED light on the enclosure flickers for about a second then that's it.
I'm wondering if I was to replace the board on the Seagate HDD if that would work long enough just to get the data off of it - family pictures and such. This is what I'm working with...

Seagate 80GB Barracuda 7200.9 HDD S/N: 5LR3HC2L MODEL: ST3802110A
P/N: 9BD011-500 FIRMWARE: 2.AAA DATE CODE: 06404
SITE CODE: WU Now the other kicker seems to be I can't find the exact same item on ebay or other stores. The closest I've found is:
Model: ST3802110A
P/N: 9BD011-302 Firmware: 3.AAD
Date Code: 06327 Site Code: WU and this...
Model: ST3802110A P/N: 9BD011-304
Firmware : 3.AAH Site Code : WU
Would I be wasting my money buying one of these and using the board on my drive or is this drive even worth trying to get data off if it won't even power on?
Thanks for any advice you guys can give me.
New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
Do search here on TVS many times over this subject has been discuessed. New pictures of your board if you need help on locating the TVS described in other News here on the forum Iorana Haraharaini

New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
Just so you know what we're talking about: http://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/pa ... .do?id=824 Just an example. Of course there are many other manufacturers for these. BTW, I recently had a Seagate 7200.11 drive here which had a blown TVS on the 12V line. The diode straight shorted the 12V line to GND. Removed the blown diode and replaced it with a new one with the same rating, et voilà, the drive is working fine, as if nothing ever happened. Not a single error in the self test. But, that doesn't mean that it has to be that easy for you, too.

New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
If you have a multimeter, set it on the 200 ohms range and measure the resistances between ground and each of the +12V and +5V supply pins. If either of the supply inputs measures zero ohms, then test the TVS diodes on the PCB for shorts. See the following article to help you identify the components. HDD from inside: http://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_from_inside.html Once you are satisfied that your PSU can be trusted, you can remove the shorted diode by desoldering it or snipping its pins with side cutters. The drive should work perfectly without it, albeit without continued protection on the affected supply rail.

New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
poehere - let me say I'm sorry for wasting your valuable time having to read something that's been Newed before and further waste it by you replying to it. If I knew what to search for I would, but thanks for your two cents.
MadOCer, fzabkar - Guys thanks for the replies but this is all over my head. I don't know what a TVS is nor do I have a steady hand to try to desolder or solder anything. I was hoping to just buy a new circuit board on the HDD and swap out what's on the drive. So far by the replies this doesn't seem like it's that easy.
Nonetheless I appreciate the replies, this just might be a lil more then i can handle.
New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
It's really not that complicated at all. If you need the data bad, get a pro to work on it (I sure am not one of them :) ). But if you really can afford to lose the data and maybe "only" get the drive back to work, then you could always see if you can find someone who knows some Electrical Engineering basics or something similar (maybe you already know someone who does). That person should easily be able to a) find the parts we talked about and b) check for you if they are the cause of the problem. This really is just a 5 minute task.

New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
Take a photo of your PCB board. You do not really have to have soldering skills to remove this TVS. If you can New a picture we can show you what to do. It can be removed by a pair of cutters where you can just snip the sides of the TVS and remove it.
Don't be so quick to judge people when you replay after they try to help you out. I just pointed out that if you do a search here on TVS you will find many News here and what to look for on your PCB board. It will show you what to remove and try this to see if you can get data off your drive.
You can test this with a volt meter and see which one is bad after you New a photo of the pcb board here. If it is only the TVS that is damaged and did not damage the preamp inside the drive you have a good chance to get back your data but also consider that the drive is no longer protrected so you should just get back the data and then either take it to an electronic shop and have the TVS replaced or throw the drive away and get a new one.

That is your only option on this one. Iorana Haraharaini

New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
poehere - Again, If I knew what to search for I would have searched for it at the start. I have no idea what a TVS - I didn't know when I started this thread and I still have no idea what it is or does. So you harping over that I should have searched for "TVS" is pretty silly.

Here is the picture for fun, though I have a feeling this is probably best suited for the pro's as you've mentioned MadOCer... You could also have a look at this thread:

need-help-with-seagate-barracuda-7200-500-gbytes-dead-t14560.html There's some additional information Newed there.
New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
Thank you. Now on the right hand side of your photo you will see next to the screw two TVS. They are square and stick up some from the others on your board. Get a volt meter and set it to 200 and when you power on the drive test the points where they are soldered. One is a .5V and other is a 12V you should be able to see this when you use the probes on your volt meter to read this one with. If you see 0.0 then you can take a pair of angled cutters and just cut the TVS off your drive.

A TVS I guess I can say in terms you can understand is like a fuse in a circuit box. It is there to protect your drive. Now if you have an electrical problem in your home you fuse box will blow a fuse and it needs to be replaced. This is what the TVS does for your drive. I think this is simple enough for you to understand this one I hope.

You do not need to get so angry and upset over this at all. We were just trying to help you and I think you are taking it the wrong way. It is you who have come here to ask for help and in doing so you are angry at the answers you are receiving.
If you feel this is too complicated and not a good idea for you to do this where in the USA are you located. We can try and help you out and put you in contact with a person here on the forum who can help you to fix this drive and recover your data off of it for a reasonable price. Iorana Haraharaini

New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
poehere, Your explanation makes perfect sense for a dummy like me to understand. After taking a very close look at the two spots you pointed out I noticed the large of the two TVS had what looked like a hairline crack or bulge. I cut it off and powered on the drive.
IT WORKED! I'm copying data off of the drive now as I type this. Thanks for all the help guys, very much appreciated and I assure you my friend thanks you as well.

New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
Good to hear that it worked. If you intend to keep using the drive, you should replace the TVS. Otherwise you would risk losing the drive and data completely next time that there is a voltage spike on the voltage rail that this very TVS protected.

New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
Wood wrote: poehere - let me say I'm sorry for wasting your valuable time having to read something that's been Newed before and further waste it by you replying to it. If I knew what to search for I would, but thanks for your two cents.
. Im glad your friend has his data back, but i am genuinly surprised anybody helped you with the bad attitude you got.
You could easily have lost all the data, just hope next time he enlists the help of a different friend with a better attitude and more of a understanding of the situation.
Data is irreplacable, and with your attitude you could almost have lost it all. @poehere - Glad your helpful, but sometimes it is just without gratitude...

New subject: Re: Possible to recover data from Seagate drive?
HDDGuy: Yah I know I should of told him to take a hike on this one becasue of the way he was. I never tried to answer him the way he responded to me. I understand he is no more grateful for what I explained to him than the next DYI person arriving here for spoon feeding. They come here and leave and never think twice of the professionals in this field and the years it takes to have the knowledge necessary to repair the drives that arrives to us broken. They believe like one client of mine yesterday who has a head problem. He said to me "I do not want to change out the heads on my drive all I want is to recovery my data" Wow that one is amazing what does he think that we can extract his platters and magically inset them into a CD Rom drive and get back his data. I told him good luck on this one and if your engine in your car is broken and you take it in for repair. They tell you that this needs to be changed out what will you tell them I do not want to change out that part all I want to do is drive my car. I got back him answer good point and well taken.

Next time if you ask for help and want it for free think twice on how you give back your answer for the help you have received. Iorana Haraharaini

I have seagate 500gb Sata hard disk st3500320as and firmware is sd14 which spin normally and it initialise normally but does not detect in bios, i also change logic board with same but it giving clicking sound how to solve this. New subject: Re: 500gb Spinn normally but does not detect mukesh_raval wrote: I have seagate 500gb Sata hard disk st3500320as and firmware is sd14 which spin normally and it initialise normally but does not detect in bios, i also change logic board with same but it giving clicking sound how to solve this.

AFAIK the PCB is not your problem if the drive does spin up no problem. You should instead put the original PCB back on and look into the well known firmware issue, also known as the "BUSY"-Bug. There is plenty info and lots of how-to descriptions online. For example here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128807 And many, many more online. Maybe even in your native language. Just search.

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User avatar Changing out PCB board will not solve this problem for you. A DR shop can handle this one and fix it for you and get your data off your drive. Tell us where you are located and we can recommand a person from the forum in your area to do this job for you. Iorana Haraharaini

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PCB is not your problem, like poehere says.. seek pro help PC Image Data Recovery www.pcimage.co.uk

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mukesh_raval wrote: I have seagate 500gb Sata hard disk st3500320as and firmware is sd14 which spin normally and it initialise normally but does not detect in bios, i also change logic board with same but it giving clicking sound how to solve this.
Here are repair procedures for Seagate 7200.11 drives:
http://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128807
Tutorial with photos:
http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-st ... -pics.html
Pinout of Nokia CA-42 cable's Pop-port connector (use pins 6,7,8):
http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-Nokia/ ... nout.shtml
See the following technical bulletin:
http://atulchitnis.net/files/seagate.pdf
Seagate were at one time offering free data recovery services to those customers whose drives were affected by the bug. This may still be the case.

WD board swap ? I think... I have the following drive that is not recognized by bios: WD800JD-60LUA0 13 JUL 2005 HSBHCTJCH Board 2061-701335-A00 AC I have swapped boards on older drives back in the day but this one I am unsure of. I pulled the pcb off and the chip (square, 64 pins?) near the contacts for spindle motor has a bulge in it. I believe this is the one that usually fries, I also see a bit of discoloration in grey foam material that it rests against when installed. My guess is the magic smoke just did not have enough ooomph to push all the way out. That being said can I find another controller board from the same series and swap it? I have read that if i swap the 8 pin u12 chip to the new controller it will work, others have Newed I would need to swap the larger ROM chip to get it to have a chance. If I had to swap the larger chip, would it not make sense just to swap out the fried spindle controller instead ? Also does anyone just repair the pcb to get the drive up and running again. My plan is to get it running and clone it onto new media. Maybe that is just the noob in me talking. _________________ Right now I am looking at the drive and the only thing spinning is my head ! If there is no internal damage (to preamp etc) then new PCB will work if you swap the 8-leg eeprom _________________ You don't have to backup all of your data, just the data you want to keep. Thanks for the quick answer! I think my soldering skills are up to doing the 8 pin swap.So I am going to go for it. Now the question is how do I go about matching up the old/new board ? Do I go by the number on the sticker by where the "jumper" pins are ? Or is there another number I should be more concerned with ? _________________ Right now I am looking at the drive and the only thing spinning is my head ! 2061-701335 u need a board with 1335. I do not think they used more than one type of microcontroller on these, so U got a good chance of success by matching that number. This board is used on other families like WDxxxxYS-xxSHxx, WDxxxxJS-xxNCxx, WDxxxxJS-xxNGxx, WDxxxxJD-xxMSxx, WDxxxxJD-xxLSxx, and probably some others as well. Ebay is your friend... Data Recovery lab (mumbai) _________________ - Data recovery It has taken me a while but I finally procured a controller board, it came with a drive. Unfortunately in my haste I did not first test the replacement card/drive combo. I pulled the 8 pin chip from the old drive and put in on new board, placed them in the original system and bios could not recognize it. I did NOT hear the drive spin up. I pulled the controller card off and placed it onto the "new" replacement drive, ( my thinking being maybe the motor had given up the ghost in the old drive) , even though I know it would not most likely be able to be read I should hear it spin up, right? Even the new drive will not spin up. Is it possible that in the process of soldering the chip on or removing the old one I poofed the new board? My thinking is that the prom should have no effect on the controller card to spin up the drive. Maybe the card/drive I bought was doa. I am using just the power supply I bought that came with a hdd to usb adapter. I guess I am going to locate a 3rd drive/controller donor and check it before hand to see if I was the cause of this. Any other ideas, or suggestions - I am just thinking out loud here. Thanks again _________________ Right now I am looking at the drive and the only thing spinning is my head ! if it is not spinning I would double check to make sure you soldered the ROM in the correct direction and that all pins are making good contact beyond that maybe new PCB is bad. _________________ You don't have to backup all of your data, just the data you want to keep. So the ROM is necessary for the motor to spin up? Maybe I will try putting the ROM that came on the new drive back on the new card and see if it (replacement) spins. If by chance I get the new (replacement) drive to spin is it safe to try the card on the old(the one I need the data from) drive ? I know it should not be able to read it, but that would tell me if the controller and spindle motor are good. The down side is if it does work then either I popped the ROM (very, very bad) or I did not have it connected properly and it might still be o.k. ( best of the potential situations). Does this sound like a logical way to proceed ? Or, should I just go ahead and order the 3rd drive for parts... Thanks again for all the guidance. _________________ Right now I am looking at the drive and the only thing spinning is my head ! I'd say unlikely you killed the ROM unless you did a very bad job of soldering :wink: The drive will not spin if it is unable to read/load the ROM for whatever reason. It is possible that if the preamp (inside the drive) is shorted that it can kill your PCB. _________________ You don't have to backup all of your data, just the data you want to keep. I will try to swap the new ROM back to the new board and spin up old, then new drives. I am not sure about the preamp being the problem as neither drive spins up now. Can I mask off the preamp connections to eliminate that as a potential issue ? _________________ Right now I am looking at the drive and the only thing spinning is my head ! here has video for replacement ROM chip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2hgiDHiXKM _________________ provide entire dirve,PCB,firmware,hard disk accessories. talk to me! Data Recovery service sunnydreamspace@hotmail.com networkpc3000 wrote: here has video for replacement ROM chip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2hgiDHiXKM OH Man, I have got to get me one of those !!! _________________ Right now I am looking at the drive and the only thing spinning is my head ! networkpc3000 wrote: here has video for replacement ROM chip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2hgiDHiXKM OH Man, I have got to get me one of those !!! _________________ Right now I am looking at the drive and the only thing spinning is my head ! Looks like I lifted 2 of the pads from where the ROM sits, I am ordering a new pcb today. In the meantime I am going to jumper from the traces that went to the pads to the legs on the ROM. _________________ Right now I am looking at the drive and the only thing spinning is my head ! IT IS ALIIIIIVE !!!!! You guys rock! Thank you so much for ALL the help here. I got it to spin up. < BIG SIGH of relief > Tomorrow I will hook it up and see what can be read. Should I clone it to a known good drive to do data retrieval, or just go ahead and copy off what I can find ? I do not have a real fast cloning package, so I am worried that running it for that long might cause whatever problem there was that burned up the old controller chip to do the same to the new one. I have also read that cooling the drive before hand can help the process, anyone care to weigh in on that as well ? _________________ Right now I am looking at the drive and the only thing spinning is my head ! cool! I suppose u can hook it up under windows and copy the important stuff off. Cooling is good, but forget freezer stuff please... :) use a fan instead. Data Recovery lab (mumbai) _________________ - Data recovery ========================================================================================= problum with wd 400 hard disk Dear friend I am facing grate diffeculty to installed the window 98 or xp on my hard disk wd 400 cavilar (40gb), the massage shown run-time error r6003 -integer divided by 0 and no fdisk running or formating the disk and i attached with other computer to see in the hard disk 25 part is shown in the disk of 1006 mb and i only make 4 partition 15 gb2nd 8 gb 3rd 8gb,9gb but all deleted only one 15 gb is showing out of 4 one is ntfs and other is fat32, kidly guide how to create partition or format the disk. thaks please reply no one can explain? Assuming the drive is recognized by a PC, locate the Administrative Tools in the Control Panel and select the Disk Management feature, which will let you create or delete partitions. Check the drive in MHDD,run surface scan. New results here! if you see !!!!! in all the blocks, the drive has probably FW problems. ________________ - Data recovery thanks for all for reply, but the hard disk niether acessable nor i install any window in it, so what procedure i adopt to resolve this porblem even i attached with any other hard disk but not accesable. kindly resolve problume with detail and step by step thanks. I am afraid it is not possible to provide a step by step solution, as the exact problem is not possible to identify remotely. In addition such guidance is far beyond the purpose of this forum. So if the data is important U need to find a pro. regards, Data Recovery lab (mumbai) ========================================================================= Searching spare PCB for WD1600JS-55NCB1 2060-701335-005 Hello there, first, please excuse my english, i am from germany. Second, very cool forum, never found so much info to hdd before! I have a problem with two WD1600JS-55NCB1, they are fried after power surge and i am trying to find two spare pcb. I already read through some threads here, but i could not find right spare parts in germany yet. Maybe someone has to sell two boards of this type? I can pay per PayPal to UK/USA. Here are the specifications: MDL: WD1600JS-55NCB1 DATE: 05. MAR 2006 DCM: DSCANT2AH 2060-701335-005 REV A 2061-701335-B00 AF XC 2V11 A051 8 000131R 6311 MDL: WD1600JS-55NCB1 DATE: 06. MAR 2006 DCM: HSCHNT2CA 2060-701335-005 REV A 2061-701335-B00 AG XT 2V14 N7X0 1 0003350 6353 Thank you very much in advance! Greeting from Germany Marcel You can use any 701335 PCB, but you will need to physically transfer the ROM chip(s) over. _________________ PC Image Data Recovery www.pcimage.co.uk Hi, I have: MDL: WD1600JS-55NCB1 DATE: 28 DEC 2006 DCM: DBBHNT2CHN 2060-701335-005 REV A 2061-701335-B00 AQ XC 2V25 13UQ 6 0004240 7244 It is dead since this morning. I don't know what happened yet. I need only data from this. If my PCB is good or I'll find new one, I can give it to You after data recovery on mine hdd. I would be appreciated if You could borrow/sell me PCB after You recovery procedure if You success. Where are You from? I'm from western Poland, about 150 km to Berlin. Regards. ====================================================================================== Seagate Momentus 5400.3 problem (Reset 4096k x 16 DRAM VENUS - 1_Disk M-37 12-01-06_14:56 Buzz HM SFI ! (P)DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at ffffffff.00.0004 Stuff Was Unreadable3.ALC 08-10-07_15:01 ALC,VE_2D_4H_S,2Y ( T>AT Stuff 0000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0008: 0000 0000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 0010: 354d 4137 3632 325a 0000 0000 0000 332e 0018: 414c 4320 2020 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0028: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0038: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0048: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0050: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0058: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0068: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0078: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0080: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 2020 0000 0000 0088: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0090: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0098: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00a8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00b8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00c0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00c8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00d8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00e8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00f8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 Not configured-0 T> What can be done in this case? No DR needed, only drive repair. 1) fix STUFF 2) check and eventually fix firmware-must at least start decently 3) selfscan. In this order. BlackST wrote: 1) fix STUFF 2) check and eventually fix firmware-must at least start decently 3) selfscan. In this order. How to fix STUFF? :cry: Hi T/>F and after that write ASCIFE in terminal and see what happends. Rgds _________________ Image ccc wrote: Hi T/>F and after that write ASCIFE in terminal and see what happends. Rgds I did it. The answer was: Unknown type 03 In that case you have to write the first 4 sectors of vendor track.....of course from an identical model. Rgds _________________ Image Get an identical model and copy vendor track, first 4 blocks are sufficient. ccc wrote: Hi T/>F and after that write ASCIFE in terminal and see what happends. Rgds STUFF does change, but " Not configured-0 " message still remains. What does it mean? What is not configured? Hi, [;] Age=50 Type=39 MxCyl=16F98 MxHd=1 MxSct=E3C BSz=008M TCode=00000000 ... T>Y Mikippp Mikippp wrote: Hi, [;] Age=50 Type=39 MxCyl=16F98 MxHd=1 MxSct=E3C BSz=008M TCode=00000000 ... T>Y Mikippp You mean that the type for this drive should be Type=39 and not Type=30 ? And I have to change it by Y command ? T>Age=50 Type=39 MxCyl=176CD MxHd=1 MxSct=E73 BSz=008M TCode=FEFE0000 T>Age=50 Type=33 MxCyl=176CD MxHd=2 MxSct=F70 BSz=008M TCode=0101FF00 T>Age=50 Type=30 MxCyl=16F98 MxHd=3 MxSct=033 BSz=008M TCode=02000101 Type U can change by command Y: T>Y Mikippp HI THERE WHAT TOOLS DO U USE IN THIS PROCEDUR? I BELIEVE I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. TKS AND BRGDS EPHRAIM PC3K to copy vendor tracks. The rest can be done with HyperTerminal Quote: HI THERE WHAT TOOLS DO U USE IN THIS PROCEDUR? I BELIEVE I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. TKS AND BRGDS EPHRAIM _________________ Image BGman wrote: You mean that the type for this drive should be Type=39 and not Type=30 ? And I have to change it by Y command ? 30 is 4 heads which is fine according to application code you need to fix stuff because it's empty "Stuff" contains ID information on Seagate drives (like model name and LBA sectors number, so it's important) Stuff located on vendor track _________________ My hobby is numismatics - http://coins.zoxt.net/ TKS A LOT Spildit THAT WHAT I THOUGHT BUS WASN'T SURE. WHERE CAN I GET A LIST OF HYPERTERMINAL COMMANDS FOR BOTH WESTERN DIGITAL AND SEAGATE? TKS AGAIN EPHRAIM Quote: TKS A LOT Spildit THAT WHAT I THOUGHT BUS WASN'T SURE. WHERE CAN I GET A LIST OF HYPERTERMINAL COMMANDS FOR BOTH WESTERN DIGITAL AND SEAGATE? TKS AGAIN EPHRAIM WD doesn't allow you to send commads using terminal. Seagate - Ither PC3K Seagate manual or search function of this forum. I've Newed the list of terminal commands for Seagate in one of my News. _________________ Image Spildit TKS U VERY MUCH AGAIN EPHRAIM Hi, whether this method is safe for the data on Hdd ? i have similiar problem Reset 4096k x 16 DRAM VENUS - 1_Disk S-0C 12-12-06_13:23 HM SFI ! (P)DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at ffffffff.00.0004 Stuff Was Unreadable3.ALB 12-12-06_13:26 ALC,VE_2D_4H_S,2Y T>AT Stuff Rnd hds, Rnd cyls, Even Cyls, Seq Out, Rnd Data Hd 0, Cyls 0000A - 1612E Hd 1, Cyls 0000A - 159F9 Hd 2, Cyls 0000A - 1612E T> but i need recover data. Thx 4 answer ================================================================ How to recover from PCB damage on WD1600AAJS Greetings all, thanks for the site... I'm writing in because I successfully let the smoke smoke escape from an HDD PCB while replacing the PC RAM (How, you say? Removed random cables to access MB, then plugged wrong power cable in wrong place while paying absolutely zero attention since the whole job was such a no-brainer). Drive did not spin up and removing the PCB revealed burn damage on the foam and the microcontroller. Anyhow, procured another 1600AAJS and transferred pcb just to verify that the drive spins up and sounds healthy; it does, but naturally the new PCB firmware does not let the drive get recognized. This would be a WD1600AAJS with the new controller [88i6745] which I am told has the integrated ROM (no U12) so I am unsure whether to send it in for repairs or to try to find a compatible PCB? Apparently there is a copy of the ROM on the "service area of the drive but I have no idea how you would access that or use it to reprogram the PCB ROM?? If anyone has a matching PCB or suggestions, or recommendations for a place (in the Philadelphia area?) that would charge a reasonable price to just get the data off the disk (what is 'reasonable' for something like this???) could you pls New back? I would really appreciate any help, thanks. Drive specs Western Digital WD1600AAJS Caviar SE (SATA) MODEL: WD1600AAJS – 00WAA0 DATE: 24 DEC 2007 DCM: HARCHTJCA PCB 2061-701552-600 01P (White Sticker) PCB 2060-701552-002-REV A (Printed On Circuit Board) Product of Malaysia These PCBs have adaptive info that is nearly unique... getting a board that matched without changing the ROM to match your patient drive is EXTREMELY unlikely. That said, anyone with the proper equipment can rebuild the ROM out of the drive's firmware area. _________________ You don't have to backup all of your data, just the data you want to keep. Hello, I am very certain that you will not be able to get this drive up and running on your own; You will need special tools for this. I am guessing that this drive has the L shaped PCB, and that there is no U12 chip present. If there is a U12 chip (should be 8 legged chip) then you are in luck, and what you need to do is transfer the U12 to the new PCB (Take careful note of it's orientation, often there is a key to help you) and that should do it, unless of course the preamplifier (a chip located inside the drive on the headstack) has been damaged as well. At that point you will need expert level experience, and equipment/facilities. If there is no U12 you will need the special tools; you will likely need to rebuild a new ROM because the ROM will be inside the CPU which is what you are describing as damaged. New pictures for confirmation regards, Thanks so much for the confirmation ("anyone with the proper equipment can rebuild the ROM out of the drive's firmware area"). I was hoping that was the case. That said, how do I find that 'anyone' and know that I'm paying a fair price??? There is so much on the internet that seems like total scams and rip-offs Also, I'm fairly confident that everything but the PCB is fine (since the replacement PCB I tried sounded just fine) but should I be trying to locate a similar board BEFORE going to a repair expert or just let them pull off the data and throw away the drive... did I mention that it's my wife's stuff and there's not much of it but she is not a happy camper? Pictures attached. Attachments: HddPcbBtm.jpg HddPcbBtm.jpg [ 55.53 KiB | Viewed 225 times ] HddPcbTop.jpg HddPcbTop.jpg [ 84.83 KiB | Viewed 225 times ] I have sent you PM, check it. _________________ Don't gamble with your data! Your PCB only need a (washing machine) , nothing else. XRONIS _________________ T3 Professional Data Recovery http://www.t3-recovery.com rafaela wrote: Your PCB only need a (washing machine) , nothing else. XRONIS Yes, contacts look a bit overused, but most likely that is not the problem. You can try to clean the contacts and try again. Maybe you get lucky. But since this happened after the power cable issue, more so realistic is the theory that you have some damaged components due to over voltage. If you know electronics and have a multimeter you can test out the board. Assuming of course you have a good multimeter and assuming you are good with a soldering iron. This of course would also require you to replace any damaged components and some components can not be properly tested with just a multimeter. Which would bring you back to square one. Yes, this board has the rom inside of the MCU ( IC chip). Yes, more or less a copy of the rom content is also available via SA. But it's not quite that simple and again you would need some professional equipment and some experience to perform this. Therefore In my opinion your best choice is to send your drive to a pro. Good luck! i can handle it. and check PM sent please. _________________ provide entire dirve,PCB,firmware,hard disk accessories. talk to me! Data Recovery service sunnydreamspace@hotmail.com ============================================================================ Excelstor j340 hard drive This drive is currently installed in a friend's computer as the master drive. He wants to install it as a slave drive in another computer. There are no jumper links fitted as the master. Does anyone know what the jumper configuration is to set it to slave? http://www.excelstor.com/uploadfile/PS9 ... D%20IG.pdf slow and easy installation guide. XRONISWD10EAVS-00D7B1 Hi i am newbie i have WD10EAVS-00D7B1 F/w:000500CE it was showing 0MB capacity not showing Model i tried to access RAM head Map change it is not allowing showing no head found i rewrite ROM unfortunately i selected wrong ROM now it is not detecting i checked with Jumpers also Thanks for any Help PCB Number is 2061-701590-A00 AC Why are you playing around with the rom? is it possible to Repair it or i can Change ROM chip i have Resources Backup please let me know which is the ROM chip Thanks for any comments. You'll need special gear to rebuild the ROM from the SA, assuming that you don't have other mechanical or PCB issues. Thanks for reply jono-ate by mistake i rewrite wrong ROM when i plug power on in Pc3000 all lights are showing drive is not taking power also. The ROM is in the MPU in this series and you need a SMT station to change it out. Easiest approach would be buy a compatible donor, swap PCB, and rebuild ROM from SA with PC3000. If you don't know what you are doing you should find someone who can help you, or you may ruin ROM again. Quote: Thanks for reply jono-ate by mistake i rewrite wrong ROM when i plug power on in Pc3000 all lights are showing drive is not taking power also. The drive is not spinning? You wrote the wrong ROM ? Oh dear.. You need a data recovery company that knows how to circumvent the Embedded ROM. If you have a copy of the original ROM it will be a great help to whoever you choose to help you with this. _________________ ??????? The car in front (doing 150 MPH) is a Toyota Totally agree with Jono-ats... XRONIS _________________ T3 Professional Data Recovery http://www.t3-recovery.com ========================================================== Need module 11 from MCKINLEY Hi everyone. Could you please help, I look for module 11 from WDxx00BEVS-00UST0 0006001M -MCKINLEY- ==================================================================== Seagate 7200.11 500 Gb gone off Hi everyone, I'll apreciate it if you guys can help or tell me where to get help with my 500 Gb seagate SATA hard drive (ST3500320AS). The drive just went off and stopped from appearing in bios. Few days before going off, it would sometimes disappear whilst the computer is on. I had to restart the computer for it to appear. Now when I connect it, it spins with just no abnormal sound and no smell for anything burnt, but not appearing. I am based in Rustenburg - South Africa. You probably have standard problem with Seagate 7200.11. First build the terminal. Next read this: st3500820as-7200-t11324.html This definitely looks like the typical 7200.11 0GB error ... 2 choices: 1. No valuable data on the drive: If you are under warranty - have the drive exchanged for free If no warranty left - buy a new drive or 2. Valuable data on the drive: Look for a DR company offering the 7200.11 repair. I do NOT suggest a Do It Youself procedure like the one proposed on previous New - one single wrong key could brick your drive - or could lead to much higher costs for data retrieval. Just depends on the value of your data ... +++ cant there be any other prob than this one head or something else ???? or if i swap the platter with the same version of harddisk n firmware will i get the data back ??? Subject: Seagate 7200.11 500 Gb gone off anudeep wrote: cant there be any other prob than this one head or something else ???? or if i swap the platter with the same version of harddisk n firmware will i get the data back ??? If ... you would be ... a data recovery specialist ... and specialised for this type of drive ... then ... its just one option out of severals .... But your question prooves you are no DR specialist - so either brick your drive and loose your data and have fun in dismounting a hard disk- or wait to get the money for a DR. +++ Delete message ================================================================================ Gurus in Africa Is anyone in this forum in Africa? :?: ============================================== Samsung HD501LJ 500gig hdd Hello, I purchased this hard drive but it was dropped and i need a replacement case. Does anyone know where i can gt a replacement case for this hard drive. Thank download/file.php?id=1683&mode=view Hi ravendark, When you say you "... need a replacement case ..." do you mean an external-style USB type "case", or do you mean the actual Samsung hard drive cast metal shell and sheet metal cover for the internal disk and head assembly? Your picture shows no damage to the drive itself, so I was wondering if it was in an external case that broke, and it is not the drive itself that is broken. Please clarify -- tell us more, maybe show us the cover that is broken? Peter Blaise ============================================================ Sansung HD161HJ PROBLEM Hello I have this in the terminal sansung HD model 161HJ/SRO hard disk seems to go into standby always busy more suggestions are welcome, I thank you SPW 0000 NoLk 5V: 04940 SpnOk spd: 0000 0000 0000 H: +00000 ADC: FFFD DAC: 9D93 SK C: 00019AAC ENG>SRV> SvoTbl Loaded CL B0B6 CM AC97 SL 31BE SM 34A4 BD FdtTbl Loaded Are you sure the pcb is original? It seems that PCB is not native and not matching the FW on the platters. Data Recovery lab (mumbai) _________________ - Data recovery Not Data Recovery lab (mumbai) the PCB is ok, tested PCBs in other hard disk and it worked perfectly, any help is welcome. thaks I did not say it is damaged, just that it might be not the original one.... Data Recovery lab (mumbai) _________________ - Data recovery harddisk wrote: Not Data Recovery lab (mumbai) the PCB is ok, tested PCBs in other hard disk and it worked perfectly, any help is welcome. thaks don't understand what pep mention at all 8) and have you try hot swap? _________________ provide entire dirve,PCB,firmware,hard disk accessories. talk to me! Data Recovery service sunnydreamspace@hotmail.com =========================================================== Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 20GB hdd problem. I am in need of some professional help. I have a DiamondMax Plus 8 20GB hard drive like everyone else here it was working perfectly. I disconnected it to move drives around. I then reconnected it and the bios detects it but in windows nothing sees the drive, also in linux a fdisk /dev/hda displays unable to read HDD. I have tried different settings/jumpers (like slave,master,cs) nothing seams to help. I am hoping there is a way to fix this hdd like put a firmware file back into the drive or something like that? I do usually keep a backup image of the drive but somehow this one i think got deleted awhile back and i did not get back to backing it up. Thanks again any help is appricated. Steven. Good Day Mr.steven could u mension the drive Model if drive is Detecting in Bios try to recover Data with any Recovery software. niceguy167 wrote: I am in need of some professional help. I have a DiamondMax Plus 8 20GB hard drive like everyone else here it was working perfectly. I disconnected it to move drives around. I then reconnected it and the bios detects it but in windows nothing sees the drive, also in linux a fdisk /dev/hda displays unable to read HDD. I have tried different settings/jumpers (like slave,master,cs) nothing seams to help. I am hoping there is a way to fix this hdd like put a firmware file back into the drive or something like that? I do usually keep a backup image of the drive but somehow this one i think got deleted awhile back and i did not get back to backing it up. Thanks again any help is appricated. Steven. Hello, The BIOS shows NAR61xxZ or N40P right? In this case, the SA is damaged, and you need special HW-SW complex to fix this. If you seek for pro near you this case should be cheap at this point. (check your PM) Janos