hello

I have a 3tb 3003FZEX Black year 2014 , the screws on the PCB are not the standard torx 9 heads

These new ones are designed almost rounded off, smoothed out and with absolute minimal head to grip a driver.

I am not sure which type of driver to buy if one is even available yet? WD own brand?

Does anyone have any ideas on where to buy a driver? what type?

thanks : )

here's a couple of pics to show the new design. i cant find these anywhere on a google search.

these are taken through a magnifying glass.

According to the photos, looks like a standard 6-point-star Torx.

Please try T8, T7, T6 -- some of these should do the job.
Or screws are rounded-off really badly?

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hi,

these are brand new untouched screws. I have not rounded them off personally.
They are designed as you see them.

I have a set of torx drivers that fit other wd HD screw heads; however, non of my drivers fit these new screw heads.

these are different.

For more Torx than you can poke a stick at:
http://www.wihatools.com/indexes/indxtorx.htm

look at the bottom of the page also for these links:

See Index of All Standard Torx Tools
See Index of All TORX Plus Tools
See Index of All Security Torx Tools
See Index of All Screw Holding TORX
See Index of All Screwdriver Styles

also look at the pages for .pdf's of tools as it may be clearer looking at the specs of the tools as well

thanks i also found this chart below.
but i think these are WD's new design, that only they have a driver for, at present.
it will probably be 6 months until someone makes it available.

you were right! it was a T6. I bought a higher quality torx driver, : )

Was gonna say.... that's pretty obviously a T6

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