First post, by Jed118
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Greetings all,
A friend of mine long ago put an incorrect adapter into his USB enclosed WD GREEN hard disk, blowing it up.
He gave me the drive recently so I took off the control board and I found one completely burned IC. Thinking in the 90s mode, I asked him to buy a similar drive on eBay so we can swap the controller board (a process I used often in the past with IDE drives) and carry on with a data recovery.
No.
Error -
Replacement drive:
Replacement drive PCB:
Original drive:
Original drive PCB:
The only thing the drive does now is spin up, whereas before it was completely dead. I can see that some of the IC numbers are not the same, despite a 2 week difference in manufacture date.
I cleaned the contact points from the PCB to the drive pins on the replacement PCB (which were quite corroded) and tried a different SATA port but I still got the BIOS error.
Do I need to flash something here?
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