Hello.

I have this old western digital 320GB hard drive and I want to revive it for fun the disk first spun clicked a couple of times then lowered the rpm then ramped it up again clicked like 3 times more then shut down and repeats whenever a program or something calls for it
I tried to check what the problem is using WDR PRO TOOL 6.0 but I think I accidently over wrote the ROM of the board the PCB board number is 2060-701590-001 REV A (Atlantis / Marvell architecture) I've heard there is a safe mode or kernel mode to write the rom to the board again but I don't know how to execute it because I can't find the right documents or anything about the drive when I search online and of course I can't trust AI in doing this and a bigger problem is I don't have these tech savvy tools and stuff like those TTL things and jumpers or a ch341a its just my pc the drive and some home stuff and flash drives and an even bigger problem is that I don't have the torx screwdriver for this alien looking star screws to at least unscrew the board

I'm wondering if anyone has anything or any idea on what I should do to the drive to revive it so I can attempt to do a data recovery on it or if it doesn't find anything at least use the unused 320GB because I really need a second hard drive
even if its not a success I don't mind at least I get to learn more about these disks and where you guys learn the secrets of the drive and stuff

In WD drives, a sequence of three calibration attempts followed by the drive spinning down indicates damage to the head assembly or an inability to read the Service Area (SA):
https://blog.acelab.eu.com/pc-3000-hdd- ... ell-drives

To restore a corrupted or incorrectly flashed ROM, you must follow a specific repair procedure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPqrUewgMJ4

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Hey Lukas thank you for responding If I had a PC-3000 I would've already repaired all the HDD's I have but that thing is WAY too expensive for regular people just wanting to fix their drive I could buy like 150 1 TB HDD's with its price do you have any other way to fix it without the PC-3000? like any software or any secret kernel mode things?

No one ever said that "repairing" a hard drive is cost-effective.
Furthermore, a drive that has undergone a head replacement cannot, in any case, be relied upon as a secure medium for data storage.
To rebuild the ROM on a WD drive (if it has become corrupted for some reason), you need to access the Service Area - which is impossible without functional heads.
You also need a working donor drive - in total, this requires two drives - one to serve as a source of parts, and the other for the purpose of rebuilding the firmware.

https://files.hddguru.com/download/Software/
https://files.hddguru.com/download/Soft ... 20Digital/
https://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
https://www.hddgod.com/portfolio-item/sediv-wd/

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I still don't know if the problem was at first failed heads it might've been something else like bad parts in the service area or something and I don't mind if the drive is unreliable I'm trying to fix it for fun anyways

@Gearre, do you have a thing called "punctuation" in Egypt?

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To be honest no body uses it in egypt when they type in english. . .

Why do you do it? Can't you understand how annoying it is? Do you think it's cool?

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I know how to use it and I know its annoying when you misunderstand me because I didnt use punctuation but I'm not going to lie its worse when you use punctuation wrong than not using it at all

And I'm sorry if my post wasn't really readable enough, I didn't really know that punctuation was kind of required here.
Now is there any way I can revive this old hard drive?

Everything has already been written.

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What would be the reason for the heads to die? when I extracted the drive from my old computer it was just reporting a "No operating system found" error

Initially, this could have been caused by wear and tear. In older WD drives, the contact pads for the head assembly connector were prone to oxidation, which produced an effect similar to mechanical damage.


Following your actions - and we don’t know exactly what you did - the problem may now be more complex.

All instructions and explanations have been provided in the previous links.
Take action.

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