Please PM me if you can help BAD PCB

[clint25n]

I have a WD2000JD-22HBB0
The BIOS sees the drive but claims it is 0MB
The PCB seems to be bad.
I have a donor PCB, but nothing to read/write the ROM with.
I am willing to either buy what I need to accomplish this, or pay someone a fair fee to do it.
If I buy something to read/write ROMs, will I need to solder anything (I suck at soldering).
Please either PM me or yahoo IM me at clint25n@yahoo.com

I need a good hard drive data recovery contact on here for other small jobs too!

Thanks,
Clinton

[Doomer]

Accodring to these simptoms the PCB is most likely OK
problem is in Heads or SA

[clint25n]

A couple spots on the PCB look a little rustic. So how can I verify if the PCB is okay, or that the heads are bad. Can I use MDDHD to verify anything? I need help as a newbie.

There is no clicking from heads with original PCB. But if I try similar PCB, heads click, and BIOS won't see drive.

[Doomer]

if you can see drive in BIOS even with 0 size that means CPU and ROM on the PCB are ok
If drive spins (even if it stops after some time) that means part of VCM controller which spins the drive is OK
There is very small probability that the part of VCM controller which moving heads is dead
But most likely it is heads or SA problem
If heads do not click that doesn't mean they are not dead

And apparently your "similar" PCB is not similar at all

[clint25n]

What should I do?

[harddrivespecialist]

You need good diagnostics of the problem.

You need a help of the pro.

[clint25n]

When I use a program called Large Drive Tools, it gives the following info about the drive.
(http://www.sadevelopment.com/more_ldt.htm)

29.53Mb
60480 Sectors
4 Cylinders
240 Heads
63 Sectors

I can also read and see all of the sector within this range; this seems to indicate the the heads read the given data okay.
What now...

[harddrivespecialist]

Your drive has 6 heads, out of which only 5 functioning.

You need tools like PC3000 or Salvation to determine exact problem. Those tolls cost thousands of $$$$.

[clint25n]

Well I got the thousands of $$$$, I just need to find a contact to help.
What should I do, order PC3000 PCI?

[rchadwick]

Where are you located?

[clint25n]

Michigan, USA

[clint25n]

So is that the final verdict now? 1 of the heads are not functioning as harddrivespecialist said? So no chance of being a firmware or SA problem?

[rameez]

How much time does it take for hdd to detect ?
Check on victoria .

[clint25n]

normal amount of time, almost immediately.
not detected in windows xp though