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Originally Posted by Tim Walsh
Neat, but I wouldn't expect it to work, those drives are assembled in a clean room. And when you send them off to a good data recovery place, they disassemble them in a clean room to be read "manually". The head/platter clearance is stupid small(microns).
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You'd be surprised what works. I did make a 'clean room' for this, but not to the extent that the pro's have. There is already a fair amount of debris in the drive. Also, the goal is to get the data off the bad drive and then to toss it, so opening the drive up won't cause too much harm.
I was successful in swapping out the head and ending up with the same problem the drive spins up, clicks five times and shuts down. Had the owner of the drive really wanted the data and was willing to pay through the nose, I'd have sent it off...
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Originally Posted by kmhemi
I had a Western D drive die a while back. ...I swapped the control board off the bottom of the drive with an identical one and it ran fine..
I see a lot of W.D. drives fail in the field...more than I should....
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Yup, this is where I started, but the new board showed the same symptoms. WD went downhill a number of years ago.
