Hi everyone.
I'm stuck with problem like this. I have WD10JMVW with USB 3.0.
Via USB device menager sometimes shows it as WD MY PASSPORT 0820, but most of time it's just unvisible.
Head and motor are working almost fine. There is wired buzzing when work but i hear head trying to "read data". It's not stuck in pads i'm sure.
I tried to solder cables for sata conection ... and here it is.
I have everthing prepared but mobo its also not see this drive in BIOS so... question is witch resistors i have to resolder to SATA lines ?
I'll be grateful for any help.
Thanks guy's.
data-medics wrote:
There is no adapter per se. The conversion from SATA to USB is all built into the drive.
There are two resistors that you can generally remove and solder into the SATA lanes if you must do it that way. However, it's generally easier to just transfer the ROM or ROM code to a matched SATA board. I've been keeping an updated list of compatible SATA boards on this thread:
https://www.data-medics.com/forum/wd-pa ... e-t13.htmlHowever, you'll likely find that by bypassing the USB bridge the data will be encrypted. So you'll need to have a method for handling the encryption afterward.