I need some advice on my HDD. It comes from a MyBook which sat on the wooden floor 24/7 next to an return air register. One day the drive didn't appear to my LAN. I carefully looked at the controller board, seen in the pictures, and the only obvious flaw I could find was a fried pin on the large chip. Spin sounds normal and I very, very carefully opened it and saw that the pillow looked white as snow, then closed it back up. I tried two WD5000AAKS controller boards with it, one from a 00TMA0, but my BIOS did not see either one.

DR pro job? Recommendations?

Thank you.

The adaptives for this drive are stored in the processor, and unlike some other WD drives, you are not likely to get a PCB swap to work.

It's a job for a pro, but it's a fairly easy one, usually.

Jono

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because you opened it the price would be higher

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The simple act of opening these WD drives actually complicates things because the cover screw which fits through the head assembly is critical to the proper positioning of the heads relative to the platters. Readusting this screw to the proper position can often be a time-consuming issue. Hence, the potential for additional cost. Apart from that, as stated in a previous post, the adaptive data which is specific to each drive is stored in the processor chip. This information must be transferred to the new PCB using specialized equipment. Long story short, if data is important it's a job for a pro.

Thanks for the feedback / confirmation. BTW, I took out my hobby magnifier and took a closer look at the chip with the burned leg. It would be nice to think it could be as simple as re-soldering, but the pad (or whatever you call it) on the board is gone, so that leg is just dangling ... and it's a multi-layer board, so who knows what it is supposed to be connected to.

So how do I go about finding a pro to do what needs to be done to get my data back?

Out of curiosity, which chip is the processor? The one with the burned leg, or the one that looks like a ROM (two rows of legs)?

The chip with the big M (Marvell).