HDD GURU FORUMS

Hi,

I hope you are doing great.

I have a HDD External USB:
1. PC3000 does not see it.
2. R-Studio sees it but can see the data.
3. Win7:
A. Recognizes a USB External Device but it can not see it the storage device under "My Computer".
B. Disk Management: recognizes the Volume Storage device but it shows "Disk Not Initialized" and usually through Windows the option to use it again is through format/ erase HDD info.

It is spinning fine now (no noises).

What can be done in this scenario?

Please find attached pictures of the HDD.

Thank you for the help.

Best regards,

Attached pics

I meant. R-Studio can Not see the Data.

Convert it to SATA, either by intercepting the SATA Tx/Rx pairs, or by using a compatible SATA PCB (2060-800022).

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32905

Hi,

Thank you.

Am i looking in correctly?

The part number provided is for a desktop HDD and this is a External USB HDD.

Thank you.

Best regards,

The established practice among DR pros seems to be to convert this particular USB PCB (800041) to its SATA equivalent (800022), and then use PC3000 to work on the HDD via SATA.

Alternatively, you could try to invalidate the bridge firmware (U14?), after which the PCB will behave like an ordinary JMicron bridge.

See http://forum.acelaboratory.com/viewtopic.php?t=8857

If original failure was "dropped drive" I would not recommend to connect the drive before it's been inspected for internal damages in clean room. These 10 head drives usually has bad heads after being dropped.

Thank you...

I am trying to find the PCB 800022, but it is not available. I am still looking.

olinyer wrote:Thank you...

I am trying to find the PCB 800022, but it is not available. I am still looking.

Look for drive WD30NPVX-00N2PT0 and you will have the appropriate PCB as well. It's not cheap though.