Hello folks,

My WD20EADS decided to stop working tonight and I was hoping one of you experts could help me diagnose the cause and whether or not I can recover anything from it. It spins up but then there's some clicking noises and it just stops doing anything after a few seconds. I've included a few pictures of the PCB, which is hopefully the issue. Do the odd colors suggest a problem? Please help!

I've uploaded two videos of the drive so you can hopefully hear the sounds and clicks.

http://tinypic.com/r/2vs2c5d/6
http://tinypic.com/r/2zeldmw/6

99.9% not PCB issue.

Heads are bad, not DIY

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Is anything recoverable from the drive or should I just get a new one and redownload my stuff?

EVERYTHING could be recoverable but it's gonna cost you $$$ . As this seems not an option, buy another drive, redownload all your stuff and carry on. PERIOD.

P.S. this behaviour of such WD rives has described thousands of times in countless threads , idem for the "odd" colour of the PCB (that is not a problem). Either the search function of the forum or GOOGLE are NOT used at all , or all these threads are VERY strange.

this odd colors! is not a problem you can clean it with small soft Grindstone.
this problem occur to WD hdd when some problem is happening in ROM.
so the hdd start spinning and because the Head is parked and can not work properly so after a while the hdd stop spinning.
the solution is solving by pc3000 by loading LDR file and after that loading the ROM file to access to the SA.

Even if you leave it that way it is not the problem , the connector WILL make contact in any case.

I have a feeling the heads are UNPARKED instead but cannot read , THEN the drive is stopped.

"little" problem : PC3000 UDMA cost THOUSANDS of $ and you should know how to use it otherwise it is a highly priced DOORSTOP. Even assuming you are right (< 1%) and the problem is not internal, there's nothing an end-user can do.

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The odds are it has a heads issue. Not DIY.

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