Hi everyone!
I would like to share a data recovery success story and thank
sunnydreamspace@hotmail.com (networkpc3000) for fast and quality service.
After flawlessly working for a year or so a few weeks ago my Wester Digital 500GB hard drive died from over heating caused by another Western Digital 640 GB hard drive, installed directly below. The drive responsible for overheating WD6400AAKS should have been installed above all other drives within the case. That would prevent rising hot air from heating other drives on the way up...
The burnt drive failed in a rather interesting way. It showed up in bios, but the OS (tried windows/ubuntu) failed to load the driver! After pulling the drive out and taking off the PCB it was visible on the PCB pad what components were overheating and could have failed. I concluded that it is most likely the PCB that died and started researching if switching the PCB will be sufficient to rectify the problem.
After reading a few posts it looked like for the drive I have switching the PCB even with very similar specs may not do the trick and the the ROM transfer will be required. This was confirmed by sunny whom I contacted trying to buy a replacement PCB. Not willing to experiment I shipped the dead PCB to sunny who transfered the rom into another PCB, working PCB. I got the PCB a few days later and it worked like a charm.
Transfered the data and can still use the drive for data I don't care too much about. Great work sunny!
Lessons:
1) Do back up your data!
2) Do check if the HD you are about to buy is overheating. Newegg reviews is a great place for such information.
3) If you bought one that's overheating do install it above all other ones!
The drive that died:
Model: WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
Date: 28 OCT 2007
DCM: HHRNHHT2MBB (3rd character looks like an R but could be an A)
PCB: 2061-701477-900 AD
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