WD3200BMVV - 11A1PSO

[fkestedt]

Hi.

I need help with recovering data from a WD3200BMVV USB.

I know there are methods to convert USB to SATA for these ones, but haven't found information applicable for this drive.

Drive will not be sent and recovery will be made using tools in my facility. Have access to IR Solder, Hot Air Solder, PC3K, Atola Insight, Flowhood.

Advice that leads to sucessful revovery will be rewarded with €.

This is a study project for my own education, no important customer data on drive.

If you don't want to help your competitor i can inform you that i only do business in Denmark.

[loki]

Some info about the fault would be helpful?
Whats the drives history?
Was it dropped?
Was Smartware password set?
Plus uploading some high quality pictures of both sides of the PCB

The more info you give the better responses you will get.


Loki

[jono-ats]

This drive offers the same four connection points as others in the BMVV Passport series.

But as Loki pointed out, the recover strategy depends upon the failure . . .

[fkestedt]

Touche!

Drive has not been dropped, it spins and makes no un-normal noice.

The "WD Smartware" partition gets mounted and everything seems to be there. I can even launch the installer and unlock.exe. Unlock.exe reports that drive is not locked. The SmartWare GUI is extremely slow and does not recognize the drive.

The data partition appears but is not accesible, when trying to access it the drive starts seeking (led starts blinking).

My best guess is that there are some kind of sector damage and drive needs imaging.

All connectors has been cleaned with teslanol and micro-usb has been measured to ensure connectivity with PCB.

[fkestedt]

Pictures

[jono-ats]

All of this stuff has been posted before on this forum. Here is one such post . . . read it all of the way through, because Terranova noted I made a mistake.

what-doing-wrong-t18160.html?hilit=usb%20to%20sata%20E71#p121616

The search engine is your friend . . .

[loki]

I'm assuming you know how to connect this drive up via COM port to your PC3K?
Have you done any other tests yet? ie backed up the SA modules & ROM, SA module tests etc

Just for info as you asked about the SATA hack connections.

Remove Capacitors: C13, C18, C31 & C33
Soldering points are E71, E72, E73, E74

Using the Search on this forum will help you find what to solder & where You'll learn more this way


Loki

[northwind]

All of this stuff has been posted before on this forum. Here is one such post . . . read it all of the way through, because Terranova noted I made a mistake.

what-doing-wrong-t18160.html?hilit=usb%20to%20sata%20E71#p121616

The search engine is your friend . . .

Yianni,

They cant read this thread.

[jono-ats]

Malista!

May seenhoritay & efharisto polee!

Jon

[northwind]

[freakzy]

I'm assuming you know how to connect this drive up via COM port to your PC3K?
Have you done any other tests yet? ie backed up the SA modules & ROM, SA module tests etc

This is first step. I would like to see the output from OP's drive

[fkestedt]

It actually was a head issue. Changed HSA and now functioning. Wonder if this could be because one of the heads had write issues. Could it be possible that smartware stores information on user partition when initializing? Otherwise i have no explanation why smartware partition would function but not user partition and head change solved the problem.

[Getafix]

All of this stuff has been posted before on this forum. Here is one such post . . . read it all of the way through, because Terranova noted I made a mistake.

what-doing-wrong-t18160.html?hilit=usb%20to%20sata%20E71#p121616

The search engine is your friend . . .

Hello to all.

Sorry for the forum necromancy, but I just registered and still I cannot access this link.
Is it because I haven't posted enough posts yet or some other kind of authorization is needed?

[data-medics]

I think it's just a bad link. Probably just out of date. What info are you looking for?

If you're looking for USB > SATA compatibility, then you should go here: https://www.data-medics.com/forum/viewt ... ?f=25&t=13

[northwind]

It's not bad link.
Its linking to a part of the forum that is not publicly available.