Suitable donor chasis

[crecomp]

Hi all

i have a dropped WD2500bevs 2.5 inch drive, motor attemots spinning but does not spin well, spindle is not frozen but drive has been dropped so you can see platter will not spin correctly when spinning slowly by hand

i have a chasis form a wd3200bmvs, they look identical just wondering if this could be used as a suitable donor to move heads, magents, boards, platters into

any ideas appreciated.

thank you

[Doomer]

if the look identical and motor coils have the same resistance you obviously can use it

[crecomp]

hi Doomer

thx for reply

after swap i have the same issue.
where drive will not spin up.

these were my tests.

Donor pcb to patient HDA - no spin
Patient PCB to donor HDA- spin
this rules out issue with PCB

i moved from patient hda to donor hda , pcb- heads - magnets -pcb and patient attemps a very quick spin but does not spin up.

i havent had issues with these swaps in the past on damaged drives ( by toshiba), havent had to do swaps on these WD yet as normally freeing heads has worked well.

this may be a silly question but if the platters are misaligned can this prevent drive from spinning up?
thx for replies

[hddmania]

I had the misaligned platters from 3.5" 250GB WD drives in the past butthe drives spun... I'm not sure of 2.5...

[pcrecovery]

I have had some experiences with these. Of particular interest is that on other WD models, you will note that insulating the preamp contacts will allow you to power up and see that motor spins up, however, on this series this is NOT possible. PM if you need more info t/s this model.