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thg
 Post subject: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 2nd, 2017, 9:52 
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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:
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wdmarvel.zip [3.58 MiB]
Downloaded 292 times

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.
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jermy
 Post subject: Re: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 2nd, 2017, 20:17 
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I don't understand why would you need the ROM and MODs to be analyzed,
Its sounds more like bad sectors/media damage/weak or bad heads rather than a FW problem
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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 3rd, 2017, 2:53 
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jermy wrote:
I don't understand why would you need the ROM and MODs to be analyzed,
Its sounds more like bad sectors/media damage/weak or bad heads rather than a FW problem


Agree, 99.9% nothing to do with PCB.

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mr_spokk
 Post subject: Re: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 3rd, 2017, 2:55 
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Does the drive came from a external enclosure? Try to clone the drive with DDRescue to a known healthy drive, and work from there.

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thg
 Post subject: Re: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 3rd, 2017, 3:28 
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jermy wrote:
I don't understand why would you need the ROM and MODs to be analyzed,
Its sounds more like bad sectors/media damage/weak or bad heads rather than a FW problem

I am pretty new to this and was just following a suggestion. Anyway, if it's physical damage shouldn't it show up in SMART?
Is there a way to verify that it's really bad sectors/media damage/weak or bad heads?
mr_spokk wrote:
Does the drive came from a external enclosure? Try to clone the drive with DDRescue to a known healthy drive, and work from there.

No, it was used as an internal drive.
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mr_spokk
 Post subject: Re: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 3rd, 2017, 6:03 
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[quote="thg"]Is there a way to verify that it's really bad sectors/media damage/weak or bad heads?/quote]
Bad sectors you should see in DDRescue....othewise you will need more expensive Tools & knowledge.
Try ddrescue...if that don't work, take the drive to a DR Company.

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thg
 Post subject: Re: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 3rd, 2017, 8:38 
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OK, I'll try DDRescue. Thanks for the tip.
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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 3rd, 2017, 16:19 
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There are some hidden SMART attributes (in 24.MOD) which look bad, but I don't know if these are significant.

Code:
ID  Flg   Cur  Wor  Thr  Raw             Description
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  1   0F   200  200   51  00000000000000  Raw Read Error Rate
  3   03   237  176   21  00000000000C3D  Spin Up Time
  4   32   100  100    0  000000000002AB  Start/Stop Count
  5   33   200  200  140  00000000000000  Re-allocated Sector Count
  7   0E   200  200   51  00000000000000  Seek Error Rate
  9   32    60   60    0  00000000007219  Power-On Hours Count
10   12   100  100   51  00000000000000  Spin Retry Count
11   12   100  100   51  00000000000000  Drive Calibration Retry Count
12   32   100  100    0  000000000002A5  Drive Power Cycle Count
184  *B3   100  100   97  00000000000000  End to End Error Det/Corr Count
187  *B2   100  100    0  00000000000000  Reported Uncorrectable Errors
188  *B2     1    1    0  00000100010F27  Command Time Out
190  *A2    68   35    0  00000000000020  Airflow Temperature
192   32   200  200    0  00000000000245  Emergency Retract Cycle Count
193   32   200  200    0  000000000002AB  Load/Unload Cycle Count
194   22   118   85    0  00000000000020  HDA Temperature
195  *8E     1    1    0  0000000DB5E467  ECC on the Fly Count
196   32   200  200    0  00000000000000  Re-allocated Sector Event
197   12   200  200    0  00000000000000  Current Pending Sector Count
198   10   200  200    0  00000000000000  Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count
199   3E   200  200    0  00000000000059  UltraDMA CRC Error Rate
200   08   200  200   51  00000000000000  Multi Zone Error Rate

     * = hidden attribute

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thg
 Post subject: Re: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 4th, 2017, 4:23 
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fzabkar wrote:
There are some hidden SMART attributes (in 24.MOD) which look bad, but I don't know if these are significant.


No corruption in the rest of the modules?
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thg
 Post subject: Re: WD5000AAKB-00YSA0
PostPosted: March 6th, 2017, 5:11 
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Oh and btw, there are no clicking etc sounds pointing to a mechanical error while the drive is on. It spins up and keeps quietly spinning as it did while it was fully operational.
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