HDD GURU FORUMS

Looking for a controller board for a WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 hard drive. The controller board model # is : 2061-701477-900 AD.

Or, if you have the drive with the same controller board, that will work too!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

hi,
have this PCB in stock. can you handle firmware transfer? please feel free to contact me by email or MSN for detail.

Hi, we have this kinds of working PCB in stock, however, rom is in main chip, so I suggest you find some pro to help you out.

Thanks, Eric

If you describe the failure symptom, one of us may be able to help you repair your board, or at least confirm that the problem isn't elsewhere.

fzabkar wrote:If you describe the failure symptom, one of us may be able to help you repair your board, or at least confirm that the problem isn't elsewhere.

The drive spins up but I do not hear any clunking sounds to tell me if the problem is physical or more logical. It is detected by bios and by windows even, however, the drive is unreadable. I have run a multitude of recovery utilities but all fail almost immediately while trying to read the individual sectors of the drive. Spinrite sat trying to read the first sector for 24 hours before i ended up cancelling the process. USF Explorer ran and was at least able to see the partition which it said was damaged, however, it was not able to recover any data. I ran WDs diagnostic tool and it detects the drive, however, it cannot retrieve a serial number nor can it retrieve any SMART data which is why I thought it may be the pcb. After running the extended and basic tests in the WD diagnostic tool, it basically stopped after a few seconds and stated that there were too many bad sectors to continue.

The problem is else where it is not your PCB board on this one, It is internal and spinrite is a drive killer. You will be lucky if you did not do more damage to this one. If a recovery program is not finding your data then you need helps with some more expensive tools than the software solutions you can get off the Internet. You will waste your money buying a PCB board on this one sorry to tell you this. But your problem is else where and needs somene to help you on this one. If data is important stop doing all this with the drive now before you kill it for good. Seek a quote on this. At this point your recovery costs should not be so great but if you continue to go on like you are now then well you will be either without data or a higher bill on this one. Your drive, your data, your choice.

Any recommendations?

Thanks

I think there is someone from here right there in your area. I believe it is pcrecovery or you can contact quasimoto he is out of Florda both are highly recommanded and can do this job for you.

I have the same exact hard drive and sounds like a similar problem. Mine will recognize in my DSI and image for a few minutes before aborting. It will not recognize after that. So I shut the whole system down and wait an hour and it will come back up and the whole process starts again. But I will never get all the data off it at that pace.

I was successful in imaging the back 40% of the drive (imaged in reverse) until about 60% left. In PIO mode and using LBA 28 mode. I had a LBA translation error earlier.

I can see the model number, smart data, etc from the S/A. But not after it aborts.

I am pretty sure this is a firmware problem and I can't fix that (yet).

I want to try booting to the PCB that goes with the drive and then hot swapping it with another one to see it will keep imaging.

I was looking for opinions on that or other suggestions.

Thanks

Glynn