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 Post subject: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 15th, 2013, 10:23 
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Hello everyone

I have encountered a serious problem when I replaced the damaged PCB of any WD 500 SATA II Hard disk , that after I mounted the healthy PCB and try to generate the ROM using Salvation data doctor for WD, it can't be generated, any help or solution will be appreciated , Thank you all.


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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 15th, 2013, 11:31 
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What did SalvationData tech support say about this?

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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 15th, 2013, 11:50 
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i don`t think that they will, but answering the Q here:

for some types/families you cannot re-gen ROM
you have to find it.

good luck

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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 16th, 2013, 7:20 
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Labtech , I didn't contact any of Salvation data tech support yet

einstein9 , Thank you very much for your response

Could somebody help me to find the firmware ( ROM + modules) of this Hard disk

WD5000AAKS-00UU3A0
11 NOV 2010 - Product of thailand


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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 16th, 2013, 9:04 
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@einstein 9 - I was a bit sarcastic about the tech support

@OP
http://files.hddguru.com/download/PC-30 ... ahoe%20LT/

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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 16th, 2013, 9:14 
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labtech wrote:
@einstein 9 - I was a bit sarcastic about the tech support

@OP
http://files.hddguru.com/download/PC-30 ... ahoe%20LT/


What do u mean here?

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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 16th, 2013, 21:41 
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I mean my question about OP inquiring with SalvationData was in a sarcastic manner, meaning that I was not quite expecting SalvationData to shed light.

So, I was trying to understand as best as possible the OPs situation.

That said, what you mean by "what do you mean here"?

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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 17th, 2013, 4:59 
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:wink:

in fact SD forum is almost dead. and there are many posts here about it

thank you my dear

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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 17th, 2013, 8:38 
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Exactly...

Anyway,

esam mohamed, were you able to make progress with the resources from the link provided?

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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 17th, 2013, 9:26 
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Hello labtech,

Thank you very much for your care , I really appreciate that

You posted a link for PC3000 , i need Salvation data file


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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 17th, 2013, 10:05 
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Oh, yeah sorry... I personally do not have Salvation resources.

What about here: http://files.hddguru.com/download/Non-P ... /TAHOE_LT/

Are sediv resources compatible with Salvation?

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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: April 18th, 2013, 7:55 
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Hi is I am not mistaken for WD drives PC-3000 files should work with SD. Confirmation is posted here somewhere.


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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: May 22nd, 2013, 8:20 
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SquaL and labtech ... Thank you for your positive cooperation , I already contacted Salavtion data tech support and their technician told me that such problem will be solved via hot swap from a donor hard drive , you know I can't try any other Rom files like sediv or PC3k , because salvation data WD doctor didn't detect the hard drive So I can't Backup the required modules to generate ROM or even try other versions or ROM files.

Thank you all for your help , and soory for my late reply :)


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 Post subject: Re: Inquiry about generating WD500 ROM
PostPosted: May 30th, 2013, 6:25 
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Dear Spildit ,

The outline of this problem that when I replaced a dead PCB of any WD500 with a good PCB the drive spins but can't be detected by neither MHDD nor Salvation data tool , So I can't generate ROM for it , I contacted Salvation data tech. support and they recommended PCB hot swap , I didn't try it out yet because it required a typical donor drive.

Thank you for your interest :)


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