Hi, I've got this hdd, not mine, it was dropped somewhere and then stopped to work properly.

I'm trying to figure out wich parts need to be changed, so I need some advice.

Please take a look at this video where you can see the drive behaviour: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v5z8hlitiwdm2l3/20140111_160106.mp4


I know, I should take it to a pro and never open it, but this is the only way to do the job!

After 4 hrs working on it, I'm pretty sure that the heads are the problem, the logic board looks allright to me, no blown components.... to be sure I did reheat the pcb, just in case of some broken soldering points. But it didn't fix the problem.

It's possible to change the heads? After, I need to do a calibration?

Otherwise, would be a better idea to swap the platters with a identical device?

I've read about an encryption on this hdd, to be honest it's confusing me a lot!

Some advice would be really helpful!

Thanks
Federico


Western Digital - WD10TMVV - 11TK7S1
Logic board # 2060-771754-000