Hi!

I have a WD5000KS drive with a dead firmware ROM. So i need a matching drive for spare parts to possibly recover my data. I got this info from HDD recover specialist.

My drive specs.
Product of Thailand
WD5000KS-00MNB0
Date: 28 OCT 2006 (exact date is not needed but near)
DCM: HCACAJAHB

So anyone having a drive with these specs please respond.

Did u check the ROM contents ? How can u be so sure that the ROM is dead ?

Is ur hdd spining or not ?

I did send my drive to HDD recover specialist. They tried but were not able to get the drive to function properly. They have also tools for updating/reading ROM chips and my ROM chip was total dead, no data
could be read from it...

And they instructed me to find a compatible drive. As the only solution would be the ROM change (if a match is found).

The drive would not even try to start on my motherboard internal SATA, so its very believable that ROM/Firmware is corrupted. With HighPoint SATA controller it tries to spin but stops after couple of silent clicks without mounting.

I still dont think ROM is currupted where are u based ?

Finland.. The recovery company has good reputation for ten years. What I discussed with them sounds very reasonable.

Of course other opinions are welcome too.