WD2500JB

[mr_spokk]

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I believed I could learn something thanks to yoor help.
By the way, I have a diagnosis: my heads are crashed.

Price is too high and I will try to get by on my own!

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Let us know your progress on this case...
And good luck.

Bosse

[frantrader]

I think the next question is... Where are you located?

I am sorry for my bad english! I am italian and now it's 23:12...

Ok! I am going to build a small cleanroom!

I am thinking to something like a plexiglass box, provided with lateral holes.

In the meantime I will start to open and crash some old drives

Good night to me ... and good afternoon to you!

[frantrader]

Hi guys,

I am searching desperately a new hard drives for data recovery.
somewhere I read I need a same model drive.
It is simple to buy a WD2500JB Caviar SE, but it's difficult (if not impossible) to search my model WD2500JB-REA0.

It is so necessary to get the same model or it is more than enough searching for WD2500JB Caviar SE?

If anybody had it, I'd buy it.

Please help me!

FT

[pcimage]

You gotta match DCM number also!

[frantrader]

You gotta match DCM number also!

Oh God! So i am in the pickle!

However if I swop platters and ROM in a new drive (similar model), I'd need a PCB with a matching DCM also!

Thank you for your reply!

[Odiferous]

I'm gonna have to agree with these guys.

Fair enough if you want to get into DR, good luck to you, and we're glad to help.

But do yourself a favour, and start with an easier patient, and one that doesn't have any valuable data on.

These WD drives with physical problems, are tough nuts to crack, even to a pro.

It takes a long time, and a lot of buggered drives, to learn DR effectively.

Sorry, but that's the way it is.

I also agree. I spent more than 2 years practising on old drives before I tried a live one from a client - and even that was not important data belonging to a friend.

I learn something new practically every day - but then I research the subject every single day.

To the original poster - if by some remote chance you become a data recovery pro, you will realise just how naive you are being even believing for a nanosecond that you stand a snowball's chance of succeeding.


Duncan

[z007]

"If the platters are mis-aligned then your data is, for all practical purposes, GONE."?
I don't think so ,I had tried it on a TOSHIBA MK60**GAS ,open the cover take out two platter,and replace the motor,then recover my data sucessfully.

[jono-ats]

You are correct. Toshiba is rather forgiving about platter misalignment.

i know of no other drive that will let you do what you did with your Toshiba.

Anyone?

Jon

[dobrevjetser]

Agree.

Dobre

[Starling]

Samsungs are also sweet.

[hiljak]

agree