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walterlee

Let me say, I feel your pain as I went through this last September/October with a WD 2500 drive. After some effort, I was able to successfully find a substitute PCB, but I wonder today if ...

danielbu

I know from hands on experience it is possible to swap a WD hard drive controller board. While my HD model number is different from yours, my success story is at:

http://www.deadharddr ...

The posts at that forum are still there. They have not been deleted. You can read them if you use the URL to browse. It is just that they are no longer allowing new posts and replies.

The informati ...

I just posted additional information about what has turned out to be a successful "do-it-yourself" data recovery at http://www.deadharddrive.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=60.

Do not give up hope, as i ...

First, let me say do not give up hope as I was just able to successfully recover my WD2500JB, which had a bad primary controller board (PCB), after 4 weeks of trying. If your hard drive was not making ...

I just posted what I have been able to learn about WD controller board swaps at:

http://www.deadharddrive.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52

I hope this information is helpful to you.

I should have also added the guy who repaired his WD1200JB board by replacing the firmware chip, posted a page of photos concerning the board swap at:

http://wd1200jb.freewebspace.com/

I found t ...

The Action Front data recovery service was running a message board that had some very good information about WD hard drives. They had lots of questions, and the techs that work on these drives were an ...