I have this disk with physical damage and needed a head change. The head change was successful(twice...lasts approximately three minutes) but with the usb interface i cant get control of the drive to image it before its heads are damaged again. Previously i have changed the MCU and Flash to a compatible NONE USB WD PCB with success.

The question......does anyone know the equivalent WD product without the USB interface so i can attempt the MCU/Flash transfer??

or is there a clone program that can mount USB drives in DOS?

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to all

Mine is not to reason why, but you could convert your existing board to SATA with a lot less work than transferring an MCU. You just need to intercept the SATA Tx/Rx differential pairs running between the bridge and the MCU. There are several threads that illustrate how to do this.

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Fzabkar....



Even with professional tools three minutes is not quite enough time to image a 500GB drive.

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That's why I said "Mine is not to reason why".

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A backup a day keeps DR away.

Heads do get damaged for a reason... Work on it.

If your heads damage so quickly there has to be other problems with this one. I would start to check your platters and examine them closely to see if you have some damage to them. Then if you still can not do this one try to find a pro who can help you out.

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