HDD GURU FORUMS

Hi, PLEASE help me to unlcok ROM for WD60PURX-64T0ZY1
rom file as attached,
thanks in advanced!!

This ROM isn't locked.

What's the problem?
Can you show us the startup logo?

Hi Lukas,

Thank you for the reply, the HDD has bad sectors,
when I do selfscan, the HDD went dead after new ROM been written,
I guessed maybe the ROM need to be unlocked.
Maybe the firmware of selfscan is not right.

What exactly did you do and what tool did you use?

arroo wrote:Hi Lukas,

Thank you for the reply, the HDD has bad sectors,
when I do selfscan, the HDD went dead after new ROM been written,
I guessed maybe the ROM need to be unlocked.
Maybe the firmware of selfscan is not right.

MRT, right?
Do not selfscan with MRT, it just mess up with rom and SA modules, then selfscan stops.
Rewrite original rom, use LDR and rewrite original modules.
MRT has a lot of bugs for data recovery, but for selfscan is completely shit!

For selfscan drives use other tools, even WDMarvel is better than mrt.

P.S.
Also WD Marvel has bugs and i've seen interruptions while selfscanning also with that tool.
I just tried them few times for couriosity, i don't care about repairing hard drives so i haven't try to selfscan any drive since last 4/5 years.

The only tool that really worked for me was Sediv.

Lukas wrote:What exactly did you do and what tool did you use?

Hi Lukas,

I used TREX and tried to do selfscan.
since the rom is not locked, then, I guess the firmware I got is wrong for this HDD.

michael chiklis wrote:

arroo wrote:Hi Lukas,

Thank you for the reply, the HDD has bad sectors,
when I do selfscan, the HDD went dead after new ROM been written,
I guessed maybe the ROM need to be unlocked.
Maybe the firmware of selfscan is not right.

MRT, right?
Do not selfscan with MRT, it just mess up with rom and SA modules, then selfscan stops.
Rewrite original rom, use LDR and rewrite original modules.
MRT has a lot of bugs for data recovery, but for selfscan is completely shit!

For selfscan drives use other tools, even WDMarvel is better than mrt.

P.S.
Also WD Marvel has bugs and i've seen interruptions while selfscanning also with that tool.
I just tried them few times for couriosity, i don't care about repairing hard drives so i haven't try to selfscan any drive since last 4/5 years.

The only tool that really worked for me was Sediv.

Hi Michael,

I used TREX to do selfscan,
now, I guess the firmware of selfscan is wrong, so, it didn't work.

Can you upload the original ROM and SA resources?

Does your drive spin up with the new ROM?

fzabkar wrote:Can you upload the original ROM and SA resources?

Does your drive spin up with the new ROM?

Hi fzabkar,


new ROM cannot spin up,
do you have any idea..

original fw:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DR60HO ... sp=sharing

The structure of your new ROM looks OK. PUIS is not enabled. I don't know what is wrong with it.

Edit:

The ROM in your resource dump is identical to the first ROM you posted.

fzabkar wrote:The structure of your new ROM looks OK. PUIS is not enabled. I don't know what is wrong with it.

Edit:

The ROM in your resource dump is identical to the first ROM you posted.

Hi fzabkar,

The file is the original ROM and SA firmware of my HDD, new rom is not included, due to
it is not fit for my HDD.

What is PUIS mean, is this some parts in the ROM...

PUIS = Power Up In Standby

Could we see the ROM that TREX produced?

fzabkar wrote:PUIS = Power Up In Standby

Could we see the ROM that TREX produced?

Hi fzabkar,

as attached FYR.

Original ROM:

Code:

ID          Size (bytes)         Address    Checksum
dir   hdr        dir       hdr
----  ----   --------  --------   --------   --------
0001  N/A    00004000  N/A        00082345             N/A
000A  OK     0000004E  00000200   000FF000   00000000  OK
000B  OK     0000013B  00000200   000FFEB6   00000000  OK
020B  OK     0000013B  00000200   000FEEB6   00000000  OK
0181  OK     00000BA0  00000C00   000FD400   00000000  OK
0030  OK     00000400  OK         000FD000   00000000  OK
0047  OK     00000800  OK         000FF6B6   00000000  OK
000D  OK     00000108  00000200   000FF04E   00000000  OK
0303  OK     00000060  00000200   000FF156   00000000  OK
004F  OK     00000500  00000600   000FF1B6   00000000  OK

TREX ROM:

Code:

ID          Size (bytes)         Address    Checksum
dir   hdr        dir       hdr
----  ----   --------  --------   --------   --------
0001  N/A    00004000  N/A        00000000             N/A
000A  OK     0000004E  00000200   000FF000   00000000  OK
000B  OK     00000129  00000200   000FFCE2   00000000  OK
020B  OK     00000129  00000200   000FECE2   00000000  OK
0030  FFFF   00000400  01FFFE00   000FD000   FFFFFF00  BAD
0047  FFFF   00000800  01FFFE00   000FF4E2   FFFFFE00  BAD
000D  OK     00000094  00000200   000FF04E   00000000  OK
004F  OK     00000400  OK         000FF0E2   00000000  OK

Plan B,
Can someone help to disable head 9 in ROM, so the HDD can be cut capacity to use.
Thanks in advanced.