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Wd40nmzw-11gx6s1 Fix ruined capacitors

January 16th, 2024, 8:10

Hi there :)

I just ruined my PCB's Capacitors is there anyway I could make this hdd work again.

First I was attempting DR with this HDD
Before this It was not spinning and no LED glow. So I searched the web and landed into WD USB - SATA conversion topic and removed the capacitors, attached the SATA Connector and tested but it was not working. And then after a while I got the solution for my problem that someone said in HDD Guru that I've to reflow the Zero Ohm :shuffle: :shuffle: Resistor between the USB connector and 12 pin header voila after this my HD started spinning and detected in disk management with Not initialized and invalid state so I thought it must be the capacitors that I removed for the USB - SATA conversion but I lost it. So why not short the removed capacitors connections :roll: that's where the problem started. My Soldering iron was not sharp enough so when I tried to short the connections the lead got into other circuits near the capacitors. So I tried to remove the lead from the circuits they got knocked off. After that I stopped shorting them and connected my HD to my pc it was not working and spinning nor no led glow either. So please help me recovering the hd. Thank you!
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Re: Wd40nmzw-11gx6s1 Fix ruined capacitors

January 17th, 2024, 13:31

Buy another 2060-800041-003 REV P1 board, and have someone with better tools move over the required components.
Or swap the ROM and MCU.
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