Hello,
I have one- Western Digital 2TB My Pasport Ultra HDD which has Wd20NMVW inside, Due to some usb malfunction on my PC the drive has now stopped working. when i connect to ANY PC it will not show up in BIOS. Just the front led lights up and HDD gets warm. I want to recover data from this Drive.
I saw some similar drive available on ebay, can i buy those drive swap the PCB, change HDD BIOS from olde drive to new pcb )and try to start the drive ? any other options > please guide.

does it spin up when attached?

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No it does not.

there were some posts by Fzabkar about these pcbs having a fuse prone to fail open...
Check that first...

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The Original PCB had a crack in it, The drive was not working earlier too. I changed the PCB and did the BIOS swap. Now i see this

what do you see? I don't see an image. I'm dealing with the same thing with my 4TB WD drive. I've tried following fzabkar's https://forum.hddguru.com/memberlist.ph ... le&u=13702 posts too and no luck yet. But others have had success. That person knows what they are talking about. I hope they look at my post. I will keep an eye on your post and update mine https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=45775 if I find a solution .

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oops, i apparently missed that ...


then it might be head sticktion or spindle seizure, can you hear any faint ticking when attached to power?

pepe

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https://youtube.com/shorts/AP0LF4JESUU? ... 3v3SUXZT4X I see this. I could not attach MP4 to my post earlier.

hope your using a clean room as dust is bad for hard disks

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