![]() Basically there is info specific to the mechanical system stored on the board and from what I understand when boards are sold for recovery purposes usually individual chips are salvaged from them and swapped out onto failed drives for recovery…Īdditionally, removing a HDD from a USB enclosure typically voids the warranty anyway, the warranty is on the enclosed unit not the drive itself… I’m not a data recovery expert, but as far as I know you can’t just swap the board and expect it to work, because when the drives are low level formatted at the factory and the tracks are written to the disk, there are variances between drives. If you’re trying to revive the drive my recommendation would be to just scrap it. Is this an issue of data recovery, or just trying to revive the drive? Note: the enclosure gives the model number as WDABCY5000ABK-01. Is there an equivalent model drive which has a SATA interface instead of USB, so that I could swap PCBs and access the drive as SATA? What model number? Is this probably crashed heads, or might it be a PCB problem? Unfortunately, this drive has the USB controller built-in, there’s no SATA port. The whole time, the drive’s white status light is flashing on and off continuously, 3 flashes per second. The whole process repeats several times (the number varies) before the spindle motor finally stops and stays stopped. The beep code + recalibrate cycle happens 1 to 4 times, then the spindle motor stops.Īfter a couple of seconds, the spindle motor starts back up, and the whole process repeats. ![]() It takes about two seconds for the “beep-beep-beep, slight pause, beep” + recalibrate cycle. Sometimes the beep code is just “beep-beep” instead of “beep-beep-beep, slight pause, beep.” It varies some, but this is typical:īeep-beep-beep, slight pause, beep, longer pause. When USB cable is plugged into a USB port (either 2.0 or 3.0, on any computer), the drive emits beep codes. ![]() Windows 7 recognizes “USB Mass Storage Device” and “WD My Passport 0740 USB Device” and shows them “Ready to use,” but it shows “WD SES Device USB Device” as “Device unplugged.” ![]() The drive is a WD500BMVW-11S5XS0, date code, Thailand (removed from USB 3.0 enclosure). ![]()
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