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WD5003AZEX

March 30th, 2016, 15:57

Had my WD Caviar Black 500GB drive die on me. Initially the drive wouldn't even power on so I swapped out the main board, now I have power and disk is spinning up but weird clicking noise. I opened it up and took this video. Anyone have any ideas on whats going on with this?

https://youtu.be/8N52UBhV4Z4

Please let me know. Thanks!

Re: WD5003AZEX

March 30th, 2016, 16:37

Yes, likely the PCB is not compatible as is due to unique adaptives.
As far as opening the drive and running the without cover: good luck.

Re: WD5003AZEX

March 31st, 2016, 1:32

agreed,
this is very often that people first mess up and than ask on forums.
Opening the hard drive in non-clean environment is really a bad idea what is more you have power it up.

you should send it to a DR company to check if there is some hope left for it.

good luck

Re: WD5003AZEX

March 31st, 2016, 1:36

Yep, you just turned a simple recovery to a more complex one. :(
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