Recovery of WD5000AAJS fried board - Conflicting advice

[scope_creep]

Hi,
I'm new to this.
I have a WD5000AAJS-22YFA0 Date 20May 2008. I'm looking for an outcome where I can recover over 400Gb of data.
It's been in an external enclosure, and the short circuit has fried it, there are burn marks all over the soldering and the
central Marvell rom (I think) has bubbled up the plastic at the centre of the chip.

I've found a board on ebay:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WDxxxxAAJS-WDxxxxAAKS-PCB-ONLY-Embedded-ROM-88i6745-TFJ1-2061-701477-100-AF-/271050496437?pt=UK_Computing_Other_Computing_Networking&hash=item3f1bde59b5&ssPageName=RSS:B:SHOP:GB:101

which is the same rom number and circuit board identification, i.e. 2061-701477-100 AF, as the fried board. This is where
the conflicting information comes in. Can I plug this in, and the hdd will come alive? I'm getting advice from some areas,
where I need to transfer across important data from the ROM. But the rom is fried. How would that information be
reconstituted.

Thanks
Bob.

[HDD Spaz]

There's ways to recover data if rom is fried on this model but not by you. Seek pro help.

[BlackST]

Out of curiosity, where exactly the 'conflicting advice' come from and what they say?

[pcimage]

Hi,
I'm new to this.
I have a WD5000AAJS-22YFA0 Date 20May 2008. I'm looking for an outcome where I can recover over 400Gb of data.
It's been in an external enclosure, and the short circuit has fried it, there are burn marks all over the soldering and the
central Marvell rom (I think) has bubbled up the plastic at the centre of the chip.

I've found a board on ebay:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WDxxxxAAJS-WDxxxxAAKS-PCB-ONLY-Embedded-ROM-88i6745-TFJ1-2061-701477-100-AF-/271050496437?pt=UK_Computing_Other_Computing_Networking&hash=item3f1bde59b5&ssPageName=RSS:B:SHOP:GB:101

which is the same rom number and circuit board identification, i.e. 2061-701477-100 AF, as the fried board. This is where
the conflicting information comes in. Can I plug this in, and the hdd will come alive? I'm getting advice from some areas,
where I need to transfer across important data from the ROM. But the rom is fried. How would that information be
reconstituted.

Thanks
Bob.

There is NOTHING you can do with this, you need a pro with the right knowledge and tools (expensive tools) to reconstruct the ROM info from the platters and write this to a new PCB.

Suggest you contact forum member "buster80" (www.databusters.co.uk) he is in Glasgow and should be able to do this for you at a reasonable price.

It's very rare for the MCU to "bubble up" like you say, so there is a possibility of further (internal) damage, but Andy will be able to tell if that's the case.

[scope_creep]

Hi,
Thanks guys for the quick reponse.
Seems to reflect what i've been reading up on, the past couple of days.

I'd phoned a couple wee recovery companies down south. One said the replacement pcb might
work, the other was positive. I think he was probably trying to make a buck.

I had another look at the board mid day yesterday, and I could see burn mark on almost tall he
solder points. A lot of current was through there. Would it be possible the heads are burnt out. Is
there any thermal cutoff between the board and heads.

I'll contact buster80. Is it possible to contact directly within the forum. I see my private messaging is
off.
regards
Bob.

[loki]

Check his website that pcimage linked? http://www.databusters.co.uk/contact.html

andy@databusters.co.uk

I think you need 10 posts to be able to PM members


Loki

[fzabkar]

You need a "PCB adaptation service".

The following PCB supplier provides such a service for free:
http://www.donordrives.com/services

Contact forum member porthas:
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