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| Author: | terryhoho [ July 25th, 2016, 12:30 ] |
| Post subject: | WD USB swap to sata, 0GB ,what's next? |
Hi, I've got a WD USB , i swap the U12 bios chip from the USB board to the SATA board. Interestingly the USB board have a U14 chip, which does not exist in the sata board.( research from forum says it's a encryption chip) I load up using MRT . i manually picked family group "shrek LT" as it doesn't auto detect Shows 0 GB WD20NMVW-11AV3S0 original board : 771961 SATA donor board : 771960 it shows Code: Technology mode key : ..........................: OK
RAM: Read HDD Info : ................................: OK Heads number : .................................: 8 Head map : .....................................: FF SA Cyl Count : .................................: 256 Serials Mark : .................................: 0xFE16 Control version : ..............................: A5C0 ROM: Read Rom Infos : ...............................: OK ROM Data Size : ................................: 256 Kb ROM version : ..................................: 01.0GG ROM generation : ...............................: 01.0GG Link table version : ...........................: 00.04 ROM Firmware version : .........................: 0001000G ROM Modules: Flash ROM dir reading : ........................: OK Switched off heads : ...........................: Yes Heads number : .................................: 8 Heads number in use : ..........................: 8 heads map : ....................................: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
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| Author: | data-medics [ July 25th, 2016, 13:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WD USB swap to sata, 0GB ,what's next? |
The drive must either have another firmware issue, or (more likely) has a failed head preventing it from properly identifying. |
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| Author: | terryhoho [ July 25th, 2016, 13:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WD USB swap to sata, 0GB ,what's next? |
hi data medics thank you for your response. ' Since this is 2 TB 2.5" drive, i guess i'll try to repair firmware via MRT. Is it just by loading the LDR file? |
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| Author: | Popica [ July 27th, 2016, 4:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WD USB swap to sata, 0GB ,what's next? |
need to remove the encryption chip? |
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