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Anyone have module 02 for WD40NDZM-11BCXS1?

May 12th, 2025, 9:49

I have the rest of SA backed up, module 02 cannot read. None of the donors I have seem to be compatible, only 11BCXS1 I have was from a 5TB model.
Thanks in advance

Re: Anyone have module 02 for WD40NDZM-11BCXS1?

May 12th, 2025, 12:18

You can edit the 5TB module to reduce the capacity to 4TB. I can do that for you, if that's all that is required.

Re: Anyone have module 02 for WD40NDZM-11BCXS1?

May 13th, 2025, 17:49

fzabkar wrote:You can edit the 5TB module to reduce the capacity to 4TB. I can do that for you, if that's all that is required.


I've tried that. I get "VSC ERR STATIC FILE INVALID" with that module 02.
I've recovered over 100 of these drives with no problem but this one is giving me a headache for sure.
Full SA reads no problem except for 02.
If I can get one that will upload to RAM without error I can just move where module 02 is and upload it to SA

Re: Anyone have module 02 for WD40NDZM-11BCXS1?

May 13th, 2025, 18:02

does the size of the donor module match the patient?

Re: Anyone have module 02 for WD40NDZM-11BCXS1?

May 14th, 2025, 14:52

pepe wrote:does the size of the donor module match the patient?

good catch. Donor is 4kb while the patient says 8kb in dir. I don't have any donors with a 8kb module 02. I tried filling it with 0s to make it 8kb but obviously that didn't work. VSC STATIC FILE INVALID.
I just get DISK DAM ERROR trying to read 02 from the drive. I guess it needs heads swapped out.

Re: Anyone have module 02 for WD40NDZM-11BCXS1?

May 14th, 2025, 15:15

beefstrudel wrote:
pepe wrote:does the size of the donor module match the patient?

good catch. Donor is 4kb while the patient says 8kb in dir. I don't have any donors with a 8kb module 02. I tried filling it with 0s to make it 8kb but obviously that didn't work. VSC STATIC FILE INVALID.
I just get DISK DAM ERROR trying to read 02 from the drive. I guess it needs heads swapped out.

Can you upload your directory module and your patient and donor 0x02 modules and your ROM?

Could there be a copy of these modules in other SA regions???

Re: Anyone have module 02 for WD40NDZM-11BCXS1?

May 14th, 2025, 15:34

If the first 4KB of the patient 0x02 module reads OK, would it be possible to shrink its size in the DIR module? I could do that.
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