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Western Digital does not sell parts for their drives. You have to find a drive that matches yours as close as possible. Do you have e-bay in your country?

The partition information is stored on the disk surface. If you did a simple fry job replacing your PCB with a matching PCB will get your drive going again.
You have to match Model#, P/N, HDA P/N, C ...

I bought Salvation Data’s HD Doctor for Seagate and HD Doctor for Maxtor.
Their web site does not have many ROM files.
If you have ROM files from drives not at their web site I would be interested i ...

There is a 80% chance you have major head damage and need a clean room. You could try taking the drive out of the case and connecting it directly to your computer. If that does not work, you are toast ...

If your BIOS does not see your drive, no software is going to help you.

For a board swap:
The FW:
The Site code:
The P/N:
The Config:
And first 4 digits of the S/N must match.

If that doe ...

Take the drive out of the case and plug it directly into your computer.
They just stick normal desktop hard drives in those external boxes.
Make sure you set the jumper to slave.

For a board swap the Site and PN must match exactly.

How bad did your ex-friend "Knock" the drive?

If it was hit hard, specially if it was running one of your heads might have crashed into the d ...

What is the best tool to make an image of a bad disk drive?

May drives I get in will not let the computer boot when plugged in and some drives lose readiness about 5% into the copy so that I have ...

What are you trying to do?
If you are trying to recover data the DCM# means little unless you are doing a head swap.
You need to match the bar code number on the PCB to fix your drive to get data ba ...

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I agree with DATARECOVERYTORONTO. I make a living fixing hard drives and Western Digital is by far the best. (Half the drives I get in are Western Digital. The other half is everything else.) So keep ...

If your PCB matches, just swap the Flash Memory chip and your drive will work again.
The DCM (Drive Configuration Matrix) number pertains to the drives configuration and is mostly used for matching m ...

The DCM is the firmware. I have seen them change that as often as every few days.
If you can't find a match, you can find a matching PCB
(They do not change the PCB as often as the firmware. They so ...

You two boards are exactly the same. The only difference is the firmware. Program the 80GB firmware to your 60GB board and it will work on your 80GB drive. You can also just swap the flash memory chip ...

The first 13 digits of the bar code sticker on the ribbon cable connector need to match and it looks like you have a matching PCB. The rest of the number is the firmware. If you transfer the firmware ...