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Hello everyone

I have encountered a serious problem when I replaced the damaged PCB of any WD 500 SATA II Hard disk , that after I mounted the healthy PCB and try to generate the ROM using Salvation data doctor for WD, it can't be generated, any help or solution will be appreciated , Thank you all.

What did SalvationData tech support say about this?

i don`t think that they will, but answering the Q here:

for some types/families you cannot re-gen ROM
you have to find it.

good luck

Labtech , I didn't contact any of Salvation data tech support yet

einstein9 , Thank you very much for your response

Could somebody help me to find the firmware ( ROM + modules) of this Hard disk

WD5000AAKS-00UU3A0
11 NOV 2010 - Product of thailand

@einstein 9 - I was a bit sarcastic about the tech support

@OP
http://files.hddguru.com/download/PC-30 ... ahoe%20LT/

labtech wrote:@einstein 9 - I was a bit sarcastic about the tech support

@OP
http://files.hddguru.com/download/PC-30 ... ahoe%20LT/

What do u mean here?

I mean my question about OP inquiring with SalvationData was in a sarcastic manner, meaning that I was not quite expecting SalvationData to shed light.

So, I was trying to understand as best as possible the OPs situation.

That said, what you mean by "what do you mean here"?

in fact SD forum is almost dead. and there are many posts here about it

thank you my dear

Exactly...

Anyway,

esam mohamed, were you able to make progress with the resources from the link provided?

Hello labtech,

Thank you very much for your care , I really appreciate that

You posted a link for PC3000 , i need Salvation data file

Oh, yeah sorry... I personally do not have Salvation resources.

What about here: http://files.hddguru.com/download/Non-P ... /TAHOE_LT/

Are sediv resources compatible with Salvation?

Hi is I am not mistaken for WD drives PC-3000 files should work with SD. Confirmation is posted here somewhere.

SquaL and labtech ... Thank you for your positive cooperation , I already contacted Salavtion data tech support and their technician told me that such problem will be solved via hot swap from a donor hard drive , you know I can't try any other Rom files like sediv or PC3k , because salvation data WD doctor didn't detect the hard drive So I can't Backup the required modules to generate ROM or even try other versions or ROM files.

Thank you all for your help , and soory for my late reply

Dear Spildit ,

The outline of this problem that when I replaced a dead PCB of any WD500 with a good PCB the drive spins but can't be detected by neither MHDD nor Salvation data tool , So I can't generate ROM for it , I contacted Salvation data tech. support and they recommended PCB hot swap , I didn't try it out yet because it required a typical donor drive.

Thank you for your interest