WD5000AADS recovering fail
September 8th, 2014, 16:21
Hi. I'm trying to recover this old drive that stopped working on 2012. At the time, I was gettin some freezes on OS, crashes, until the disk just stop begin detected and also stop spinning.
I keep the disk on antistatic cover and case for all this time, and some time ago, I decided to give a try and buy one of these PCBs that is used to replaced dead ones. Well, I find one that have the same exact number: 2060-701640-002
Old PCB
When it arrived, I swap the 8 pin IC from the original board to the other, double checked the solder with objetive lens and everything was fine. When I plugged the disk on power supply, I could feel and hear it starting to spinning and after velocity stabilizes, I could hear and feel the heads moving around, without clicks repeating pattern, just moving, much like a working disk.
Well, after this I was already happy, everything seems working, and so I installed the disk on the motherboard, turn on, then I notice that something was wrong. The disk is not correctly detect by de BIOS, it just show that is something in there, but instead a name like "WD 500GB HARD DISK" is just a blank field but not like if was nothing in there (None):
SATA 4 is where the disk is - it shows as blank but with the other PCB, it was showing as "None", like if was nothing there
I tried to force it detect on Windows, and the device manager it show as SCSI Hard Drive, but won't work too
SCSI Disk Device
I left it on for some minutes, and was work, not too hot like some short circuit on the semiconductors, and it stay on for some minutes, 10 or so, until it shutdown it self. If you force the Windows re detect the driver, automatically it turns on again.
What can be happening here? This serie of WD seems a lot problematic, many people seems have problems with this drives...
Thank you for reading.
I keep the disk on antistatic cover and case for all this time, and some time ago, I decided to give a try and buy one of these PCBs that is used to replaced dead ones. Well, I find one that have the same exact number: 2060-701640-002
Old PCB
When it arrived, I swap the 8 pin IC from the original board to the other, double checked the solder with objetive lens and everything was fine. When I plugged the disk on power supply, I could feel and hear it starting to spinning and after velocity stabilizes, I could hear and feel the heads moving around, without clicks repeating pattern, just moving, much like a working disk.
Well, after this I was already happy, everything seems working, and so I installed the disk on the motherboard, turn on, then I notice that something was wrong. The disk is not correctly detect by de BIOS, it just show that is something in there, but instead a name like "WD 500GB HARD DISK" is just a blank field but not like if was nothing in there (None):
SATA 4 is where the disk is - it shows as blank but with the other PCB, it was showing as "None", like if was nothing there
I tried to force it detect on Windows, and the device manager it show as SCSI Hard Drive, but won't work too
SCSI Disk Device
I left it on for some minutes, and was work, not too hot like some short circuit on the semiconductors, and it stay on for some minutes, 10 or so, until it shutdown it self. If you force the Windows re detect the driver, automatically it turns on again.
What can be happening here? This serie of WD seems a lot problematic, many people seems have problems with this drives...
Thank you for reading.
Re: WD5000AADS recovering fail
September 10th, 2014, 5:57
Hello!
Have you listen if the disk is spinning? or if it makes any knocking sounds?
You may have a problem of incompatibility of PCB, is the donor PCB from the same Hard drive as the patient one. I mean the Model is the same ? at least the first part?
Have you listen if the disk is spinning? or if it makes any knocking sounds?
You may have a problem of incompatibility of PCB, is the donor PCB from the same Hard drive as the patient one. I mean the Model is the same ? at least the first part?
Re: WD5000AADS recovering fail
September 10th, 2014, 6:54
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At the time, I was gettin some freezes on OS, crashes...
This symptoms are not due to pcb issue.
Very likely due to bad heads, or firmware issue, or both the things.
Try to dump SA mods with Sediv demo:
http://sediv2008.narod.ru/Easy3.9Passwo ... 567890.rar
You can also check heads with WDR demo version:
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