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western digital restoration wd10elx

March 18th, 2024, 14:19

Hello everyone
I am a computer technician who knows a little about restorations.
I tried to make a recovery in the diskDrill program on the blue disk, I managed to recover 30%.
After that it started to hang, so I decided to change the controller, so I took the controller from WD green and moved it to the drive of the blue recovery and turned it on and it didn't work.
And after that I returned the blue controller, and since then the drive is not recognized by any software only in the device manager. and makes the noise like clicks and stops responding.
What happened and can it be fixed?
Attached are the photos and the video as well as the S.M.A.R.T diagnosis when the drive was identifying itself
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Re: western digital restoration wd10elx

March 18th, 2024, 21:34

The two PCBs have different pinouts for the HDA connector. Most importantly, the preamp power supplies are on different pins.

I suspect that the preamp may now be damaged. :-(

https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/yhst-14437584971410/91710991-12.gif

https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/yhst-14437584971410/91710801-12.gif

Re: western digital restoration wd10elx

March 19th, 2024, 8:51

So it can be said that what I did is what damaged the drive? And is it possible to transfer the heads from the green drive to the blue drive?

Re: western digital restoration wd10elx

March 19th, 2024, 16:17

jony500 wrote:So it can be said that what I did is what damaged the drive? And is it possible to transfer the heads from the green drive to the blue drive?

No. In fact, if you had understood what I wrote, you would have been able to answer your own question.

Re: western digital restoration wd10elx

March 20th, 2024, 9:58

I didn't really understand, I'm a simple computer technician. But I understood that it was related to a component near the heads that was probably damaged because it received an incorrect power supply. Right?

Re: western digital restoration wd10elx

March 20th, 2024, 17:45

HDD from Inside: Hard Drive Main Parts:

https://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_from_inside.html

This is what can happen to the preamp:

https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=41304

Re: western digital restoration wd10elx

March 21st, 2024, 4:19

than'k you

Re: western digital restoration wd10elx

March 21st, 2024, 8:52

This work needs beyond any technician skill. A special knowledge about Hard Drive and how it works. It is not simple like changing bad ROM of Motherboard. Hopefully drive is still recoverable so find Hard Drive Technician.
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