Hello!
I have this failed WD 500GB PATA drive, which I'm trying to recover data from:
MDL: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
DATE: 23 APR 2008
DCM: HHRNHT2CHB
PCB: 2061-701508-900 AD XT 4N07 MLYU 7 0003410 8 413
F/W: 12.01C02
It shows on the start up screen, but then pauses the loading process with a hard disk error. Resuming it with F1 loads Windows, but the drive isn't visible in it. Using a boot CD I can initialize the drive in Victoria and view its SMART status, which is totally fine, but when I try to run a surface scan I only get defects.
fzabkar at hddoracle recommended me, as a first step, to dump the drive's ROM and modules using the demo versions of WDR or WDMarvel, which I did:
Attachment:
wdmarvel.zip [3.58 MiB]
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I also checked checked the ROM's integrity with fzabkar's tool and it's OK.
Can anyone help me analyze the modules?
PS: Unfortunately, I cannot continue at hddoracle as my posts aren't getting approved (Staff on vacation?), so I moved here.