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 Post subject: Wd caviar wd1600 not spinning up after pcb and u12 swap
PostPosted: December 5th, 2014, 10:02 
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I'm hoping someone can help me. I think I may be at the data recovery company stage but I may be missing something. The hard drive was in an external enclosure and after a pc move to another room I must have accidentally hooked it up to the wrong power supply as I could smell burning and the drive wasn't spinning up. I quickly switched it off and after removing the pcb seen that the u1 chip was fried. After doing some research I purchased a replacement pcb online and I'm sure that all the numbers that need to match do. I then had an electronics shop do the u12 swap. I fitted the new pcb, connected it to the external enclosure and fired it up. Nothing happened, no spin up or noises of any kind. The drive wasn't recognised in windows. I connected it directly to the pc internally but exactly the same outcome. If I hold my ear really close to the drive when it's powered up I can hear a faint buzzing sound and the u6 chip gets really warm very quickly. I have attached pictures of the hard drive, old burnt pcb, new pcb etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks


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 Post subject: Re: Wd caviar wd1600 not spinning up after pcb and u12 swap
PostPosted: December 5th, 2014, 13:50 
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 Post subject: Re: Wd caviar wd1600 not spinning up after pcb and u12 swap
PostPosted: December 5th, 2014, 17:31 
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Measure the resistances between each pair of motor terminals.

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 Post subject: Re: Wd caviar wd1600 not spinning up after pcb and u12 swap
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thanks for the reply fzabkar. Sorry for being a complete noob, I can work a multimeter but where are the motor terminals? Would you be able to explain this in more detail for me.
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 Post subject: Re: Wd caviar wd1600 not spinning up after pcb and u12 swap
PostPosted: December 5th, 2014, 19:23 
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Cribbyrhymes wrote:
think I may be at the data recovery company stage


I agree. I think what Fzabkar is saying is that the drive likely has internal issues, possibly heads stuck to the platters.

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 Post subject: Re: Wd caviar wd1600 not spinning up after pcb and u12 swap
PostPosted: December 5th, 2014, 19:51 
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What you do to the drive at this current stage will determine its outcome. If you value your data send it to a professional. Whatever you do, don't open the drive. It will only make it worse and more expensive.

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 Post subject: Re: Wd caviar wd1600 not spinning up after pcb and u12 swap
PostPosted: December 5th, 2014, 20:21 
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Cribbyrhymes wrote:
I can work a multimeter but where are the motor terminals?

There are 4 pins connecting the motor to the PCB. The resistance between each pair of terminals on the motor (not on the PCB) should be of the order of 1 - 2 ohms.

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If the motor is OK, then you may have a stiction fault.

Head stiction video by Waqas Ali:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cvo59 ... k_head.zip

Waqas Ali is a SalvationData trainer:
http://www.alexsoft.org/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=622&p=1671

Of course he would normally perform the procedure in a cleanroom or clean chamber, and he would be wearing gloves.


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 Post subject: Re: Wd caviar wd1600 not spinning up after pcb and u12 swap
PostPosted: December 8th, 2014, 18:34 
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Ive measured the resistance across the motor terminals on the HDD with the following results

1-2 = .001
1-3 = .001
1-4 = .001
2-3 = .002
2-4 = .002
3-4 = .002

Does this mean that the motor is broken?


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