Hi after searching the new for answers ive come to a brick wall.

my hard drive has died a terrible slow death.

WD5000AAJS 32TKA0
500 gig
pcb 2061-701499-000 ab xs4c04 0z9s 7 0006230 7236
Date 10 dec 2006

the problem.
this hdd was part of a external hdd which i bought 3 years ago. after long use it started making noises even when the hdd was not spinning. kinda like beeps with the hdd trying to start. what i found is that the pcb was running rather hot when i tried to find the fault i thought it was the caddy it came with. after taking off the pcb i found the foam to be printed kinda like molded around the chips unlike my other WD drives so i gathered its over heated.

when looking at the pcb and testing it i found the noise was coming from the centre black chip (M logo on it) and was running rather hot.

now i emailed wd to see if they could send me a new pcb but im not holding hope, after looking around i found other hard drives the same model etc but i know you need the same firmware to make the hdd run. now i have a other wd hard drive but its a 300 gig, i know by swapping the pcb the hdd will spin but i cannot read or see the drive, is there anyway i could swap the firmware round on the 200 gig hdd pcb to make the 500 gig one work. (i doubt it)

or can i cook the dead pcb with a heat gun to see if i can resolder broken connects like i can do with motherboards and graphics cards ive fixed with the same method in the past.

if any of this doesnt work, can you recomend any data recovery centres in the uk which is trust worthy and cheap that will just replace the pcb without going through the crap of recovering my files and charging me thousands to do it, im poor and my hdd had everything from the past 7 years of my life (yesh i know backups but i moved files on there tempary to do some decoding and it broke at the wrong time)

thank you i know its a wall of text but its hard to know that my information is still there but i cannot access it.

Try to PM Sean from pcimage he is trusted member here on the forum and he is in UK. He can handle this one for you.

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Iorana Haraharaini

You WILL NOT be able to swap the PCB on this model, it has pretty much unique info programmed into the ROM.

Unlike other models, the ROM is masked inside the main processor so not realistically physically removable to transfer to a new PCB

If this case was DIYable then we could give you some advice, but a pro recovery is necessary on this case I'm afraid and won't costs "thousands" if it's "only" the PCB.

The noises are worrying though, and could be a failing head which isn't good news. Please do not power this drive up any more as every second it's spinning with a bad head more data is being munched!!

PM me if interested.

Sean

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Hello everyone,

I have a similar problem. my "MyBook 500GB" external hard drive just stopped working a couple of days ago.
I was hoping that it would be a problem of the external casing and changed that already, but with no luck.


The curious thing about this error is, that the drive doesn't even start to spin. as soon as I turn the external drive "on", the Led starts flashing rather quickly but monotonously and nothing else happens. I assume there is something wrong with the power supply of the hdd, since I noticed another curious error. when I connected the drive to my desktop computer via the SATA connector on my mainboard, the whole thing went suddenly dead. no power! I had to disconnect the hdd from the mainboard and the whole computer from the power supply, after that it worked again.

Please let me know what I could do about that error. I have the feeling, that it might be a simple problem with the power supply of the pcb, but the actual data could still exist completely untouched on the drive.

I am somewhat of a noob in the field of data recovery, so please be gentle

the specifics of my drive are:

Modell: WD5000AAJS-32TKA0
Date: 10 Dec 2006
DCM: HANCNV2AA
WWN: 50014EE00009D25B
Product of Malaysia

PCB: 2061-701477-000 AB XS 4C04 03FQ 7 0005210 7215

pictures: http://www.rickreinhold.de/pics/102_1566.JPG, http://www.rickreinhold.de/pics/102_1567.JPG

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its defo the pcb, i tried the board without the hdd attached,(i know stupid but it was broken so what the hell) it beeped and made the noices, i tried the hdd with a diff pcb even though it couldnt read the info and the hdd spun up no problem.

will pm you for a quote, but it wont be able to send it till the end of september when i have the spare cash, hopefully only 200 quid lol

hi Ritus,
check this diode.

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