Hello!
Looks like this is not my lucky week.

I have received this drive as it is. Opened in another two companies before.

Forgot to mention: without native ROM too.

Hi!
The upper picture is NOT a WD5000LMVW-11CKRS0 drive, it looks like a Seagate F3 drive

yes ,

this drive comes with 1 platter 2 heads ..

Sorry.

Update:
After replacing heads the drive ID's correctly with full model, FW, Capacity and SN.
In DE it shows partition NTFS and I can see the full structure of data but when imaging it images until first 168 MB then gives error. Backward copy gives the same error.
Soft reset, hard reset and reset power but also shows error.

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

what about rom ?

fhe heads pass the teat ?

Im 99% sure this drive is self encrypting. Have you looked at the first sector?

Also your probably going to get a SED locked error in utility because this model blocks SA access.
You need to isolated heads, shift regions and remove the SED lock before you can do things like patching mod 02 etc.

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You are right about SED lock.
Here's sector 0:

Looking at sector zero it doesn't look encrypted.

You should follow this guide here that ACE has made, it should apply to your model, assuming you have PC3K.

http://blog.acelaboratory.com/pc-3000-hdd-how-to-solve-sed-problem-in-25-wd-drives.html

Let us know if you have any luck

Regards,
Luke

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I have user area access already with SATA interface.

You mentioned original ROM was missing. Have you regenerated mod 47 from SA?

Can you read the last sector of the drive?

Are you imaging in PIO mode?

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I already accessed SA by shorting tv9 and tv10 then regenerated Rom by SA.
I guess heads are not fully matched.

Last sector gives error.
I tried imaging using udma and pio mode with no luck.

this drives .. normaly not encrypted

i think u replaced bad heads ... from bad donor

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Case solved. Another fully matched donor did the job perfectly.