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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:46 am Post subject: urgent, Western Digital Question |
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I recently fried my western digital WD800 Caviar 80 gig hardrive. It was in a western digital dual-option enclosure. I opened the case (voiding the warantee) and removed the hardrive. I placed it in a new enclosure, started it and it was absolutely dead. No noise, spinning, nothing. I removed the logic board to find a fried motor chip. I went to best buy and purchased the closest match I could. It was a WD800 caviar se. I know the specs are supposed to be exact, but I tried to replace the logic boards anyhow. The boards are more or less identical. The main difference I see is that the connectors and bus routes are gold on the fried board, and silver on the newer board. I placed the board and stuck the drive in an enclosure. When I started the enclosure, the hardrive booted up and began spinning. I attached it to a laptop, and as expected, it was not detected. I then attached it as a slave to a desktop computer and entered the bios. The bios detects it as a slave but reports it as "wdc rom model sabre". Still, I cannot access the drive. Not sure what wdc rom model sabre is. Any advice guys? Thanks |
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:20 am Post subject: |
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hi the problem is that your using a diffrent board with the hard drive
so the start head and firmware is all total wrong
and the head can not find the right information
you got to match the right logic board up and allso the firmware to work.
as for taking the hard drive apart you more likely damaged the platters
as dust or static or even a single finger print can damaged the data |
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: Western Digital SABRE dilemma |
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I just opened up the case and this happened to me
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