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Hello, in searching the internet I came across these forums.
Looking on ebay has been unsucessful to find a used drive that I want.
But if anyone has a spare WD1600JB-00GVA0 that they would be willing to sell for around $40 dollars, that would be great.
I don't have the drive in front of me now to get the rest of the information, but I can get it later tonight.
Some background on the hard drive, maybe you smart folks here have some information that I can get it working without a PCB swap....which is about the extent of my knowledge when it comes to hard drive repair.
The western digital drive is from 2004, and has been sitting in a box in temperature controlled storage for about 2 years. It was working of course before I took it out of my computer when I upgraded my PC. When I plug the drive into a IDE usb adapter, Windows XP recognizes that a USB device has been plugged it, as a generic Mass Storage Device, but it doesn't indicate anything else. Going to Disk Management, I am prompted that the disk has to be initilized before I can use it. I do not initilize it, and I shut down the computer.
Hooking the drive up as native IDE to the motherboard, jumper set to single drive mode, with a brand new IDE cable, with the drive being on the Master end of the cable. This results in just about the same thing. The BIOS does not detect the drive is even hooked up, and once I get to Windows I can't remember exactly now, but I'm pretty sure Disk Management doesn't even prompt to initilize the disk.
I've tried using a Knoppix boot CD, and Ultimate Boot CD just to see, but of course they are unable to recogize the drive is even plugged it, since the BIOS doesn't detect it.
Now the drive powers up and spins just fine, it hums along like a brand new hard drive....so my thinking is if I can find a exact match for the circuit board, I might have some luck in getting it to work. Is there anything else I can do?
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