Western Digital WD10EZEX (almost) dead
January 29th, 2016, 16:41
Hello folks!
I need an advice for my problem: I have an Western Digital WD10EZEX-00BN5A0
which was working fine under Windows 7 (about 4-5 hrs./day), mainly for storing projects and data. Last day I started OS X Yosemite, where I have installed some time ago a program called DiskDrill. This time DiskDrill asked me if I want to update, and after updating it warned me about errors on WD hard drive and I saw a notification about "relocating bad sectors" or something like that. After restarting the computer Windows was unable to start, OS X sees the faulty drive drive but it's very, very slow to copy from it - about 1 hr. for about 100 Mb of data. I tried to boot with an live Linux distro, but gparted does not see my drive. The drive is seen in BIOS, and if I try to start WIN / OSX / Linux the HDD LED stays on all the time. One important thing: the drive does not click, it sounds normal. I managed to get an identical HDD to clone the faulty one if it can be revived one more time 
What can I do? Can it be MOD_02 the solution? Thanks a lot!
Nea Pandele
I need an advice for my problem: I have an Western Digital WD10EZEX-00BN5A0
What can I do? Can it be MOD_02 the solution? Thanks a lot!Nea Pandele
Re: Western Digital WD10EZEX (almost) dead
January 30th, 2016, 16:39
Hello Spildit! Huge thanks for your reply, but I have one thing that is quite unclear: I saw that WDMarvel is a Windows application (actually a x86 app, but on a x64 Win 7 the driver would not load because of invalid signature 
) and as I was saying, if I try to boot Windows, the OS will not load as long as faulty WD HDD is connected to SATA port. So, I would gladly buy a license for WD Marvel, but how the **** can I use it if the OS won't start 
!? Thanks a lot!!!
Nea Pandele
) and as I was saying, if I try to boot Windows, the OS will not load as long as faulty WD HDD is connected to SATA port. So, I would gladly buy a license for WD Marvel, but how the **** can I use it if the OS won't start !? Thanks a lot!!!Nea Pandele
Re: Western Digital WD10EZEX (almost) dead
February 1st, 2016, 6:27
Hello again.
Thanks Spildit for valuable info! I bought a license for WDMarvel and did as shown in posts above. The good part is that I recovered 1 partition from the drive (more than 95% of files) with R-Studio. The bad part is that the second partition (the most important one) is still inaccessible. While I did the "Slow Responding" thing, WDMarvel threw the following message:
I don't have Cyrillic charset so I can't even use an translator
Still, I can see the label of second partition in OSX / Linux, but both of them freeze when trying to access it. Do you have any suggestion?
Best regards,
Nea Pandele
P.S. Is there an manual for WDMarvel in English?
Thanks Spildit for valuable info! I bought a license for WDMarvel and did as shown in posts above. The good part is that I recovered 1 partition from the drive (more than 95% of files) with R-Studio. The bad part is that the second partition (the most important one) is still inaccessible. While I did the "Slow Responding" thing, WDMarvel threw the following message:
I don't have Cyrillic charset so I can't even use an translator
Still, I can see the label of second partition in OSX / Linux, but both of them freeze when trying to access it. Do you have any suggestion?Best regards,
Nea Pandele
P.S. Is there an manual for WDMarvel in English?
Western Digital WD10EZEX (almost) dead - SOLVED
February 1st, 2016, 22:29
Hi folks!
Solved the damn issue! Here's how (you will need some spare HDDs...):
1. Fresh, clean Win XP install on a spare HDD
2. Boot Win XP with an similar, good HDD (let's call it HD1) as the bad one (let's call it HD2) attached on SATA port (IDE mode in BIOS)
3. Hot swap HD1 with HD2 (this one made me a little nervous
)
4. WDMarvel - apply "Slow Responding" fix
5. Shutdown the PC, place again the HD1 on SATA port and attach a third - destination - HDD (HD3)
3. Boot Win XP and hot swap again HD1 with HD2 (this time I was about to pass out
)
5. DMDE - copy from HD2 to HD3 all the stuff (over 95% of files recovered)
6. Have a lot of beers!
Yes, it will cost you about 30 EUROS, but it will worth every cent! Thanks Spildit, WDMarvel and DMDE!
Solved the damn issue! Here's how (you will need some spare HDDs...):
1. Fresh, clean Win XP install on a spare HDD
2. Boot Win XP with an similar, good HDD (let's call it HD1) as the bad one (let's call it HD2) attached on SATA port (IDE mode in BIOS)
3. Hot swap HD1 with HD2 (this one made me a little nervous
)4. WDMarvel - apply "Slow Responding" fix
5. Shutdown the PC, place again the HD1 on SATA port and attach a third - destination - HDD (HD3)
3. Boot Win XP and hot swap again HD1 with HD2 (this time I was about to pass out
)5. DMDE - copy from HD2 to HD3 all the stuff (over 95% of files recovered)
6. Have a lot of beers!
Yes, it will cost you about 30 EUROS, but it will worth every cent! Thanks Spildit, WDMarvel and DMDE!
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