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 Post subject: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 6th, 2008, 13:16 
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Hi Experts,

Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB.
Could any expert pls throw some light on this.


Thanks in advance.

-RDS.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 6th, 2008, 13:29 
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Hi,

some more info would be useful like wether it spins up or makes clicking sound or not...

pepe

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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 6th, 2008, 14:00 
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tried MHDD and show us, what did u get on the screen

ID, read sectors, check if its showing the passport, ATA registers while try to read sectors like pepe said

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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 7th, 2008, 2:03 
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Hi Experts,

Thanks for your reply.

MHDD result
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ID / EID
LBA:0 , Size:0MB
This device does not support LBA mode. MHDD will not work on this device

RESET FAIL
RECAL FAIL
NHPA FAIL

CX (Seak & Read test)
! ERROR: Drive not responding or operation canceled
RECAL FAIL
Broken Drive

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1.The Drive is spinning without any interruption.
2.No Clicking noise.
3.Getting detected in the BIOS but reports 0MB size.


Any clue or any other tool to check with?

-RDS.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 7th, 2008, 10:17 
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Hi Pepe Sir,

Waiting for your advice...

If anything to do with the PCB swap,
The drive has the PCB no.: 2061-701444-000 AA
This PCB does not come with the U12 module to swap from patient to donor.
So, will the Disk accept donor PCB without doing any U12 ROM chip transfer?

-RDS.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 7th, 2008, 22:51 
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Hi Pepe,

waiting for your advice...

-RDS.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 7th, 2008, 23:13 
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what happend when u tried to read sectors, what its showing at ATA registers, ABRT, IDNF, ?

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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 8th, 2008, 3:47 
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Hi Beto,

MHDD doesn't detect at all.
Atleast BIOS detects this disk as 0MB disk.

Any other inputs from ur experience?

-RDS.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 8th, 2008, 11:36 
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Hello Pepe sir,

Any help from your side ?

-RDS.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 9th, 2008, 9:33 
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Hi,

probably FW problem and there's nothing to do with PCB swap.

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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 9th, 2008, 10:12 
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Hi Pepe sir,

Thanks for your reply.

I just noticed that there is no firmware chip (8pin U12) in the PCB.
How to go about it?
I need the data badly.

-RDS.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 9th, 2008, 10:19 
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well ragadatasolutions FW its not only on PCB; its on the platters called " diskware" Engineering Cylinders, System Area, System Tracks, etc, on first u should be read this article sticky-important-topics-beginners-please-look-here-first-f16/newbie-info-from-and-for-newbies-about-firmware-sa-etc-t6562.html

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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: February 11th, 2008, 12:14 
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Hi Beto,

Thanks for your reference.
I mistyped there. I wanted to ask about the "8pin U12 chip" which we usually swap, when we do pcb change.
In this particular model. The slot is found empty. I mean to say that there is a 8pin U12 chip slot, but found missing by default.

How to go about PCB change.

-RDS.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: May 5th, 2010, 1:58 
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have anyone of you solved the problem?
I have a damaged WD3200AAJS HD with the same failure..
I need the data badly
help! :roll:


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 Post subject: Re: Western Digital WD3200AAJS detecting in BIOS as 0MB
PostPosted: March 19th, 2015, 22:34 
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Sorry to ask, but did you recover the data from the HDD? I have the same kind of HDD and it crashed 1 month ago. Ordered a new PCB and now the HDD spins (didn´t with the old one) but it is not recognized by BIOS. Need the data badly.


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