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Betray · Officially active! Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 4

I got a new hard drive, the chip set is the same, but no luck. In vista i cant initialize the drive. Im getting an error when i try.

Any one have recommendations?

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:10 pm Post subject:

Please describe what are you trying to do.
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Betray · Officially active! Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 4

I bought a western digital WD10EADS 1.0TB drive.. 3 months later it died. i looked at the PCB board and noticed there was a burn mark right on a chip. I bought another identical drive (cant tell if firmware is different, but they do look very similar) I replaced the PCB, and the drive now spins up. But it does not show up in BIOS or Windows. Disk management does see the drive, but it asks too initialize the drive. When i try to do that, it fails giving me a Illegal Function error.

Not sure what to do now.

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject:

Each WD drive has unique microcode programmed into a board.
Unless you will match a board and then reprogram that new board with microcode from original board, your drive won't work.
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Betray · Officially active! Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 4

I see.. is this something i cannot do?

Will i have to seek a an outside source?

Eric Lee · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:59 am Post subject:

Hi, Betray,

Do you keep you original old board in your hand ? If you still keep it, you could just swap the BIOS chip. The BIOS chip have its unique Rom program.

Pls advise the PCB No. which was printed in the back side and have some words "REV" here. I will try to show you where is the BIOS chip.
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Betray · Officially active! Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 4

Hello Eric, i still have the original PCB, but they chips cannot be removed. Can you still help me out?

Kit · Deadharddrive regular +2 Joined: 10 Nov 2008 Posts: 56

What to help, it would be necessary that a disk in hands.

Eric Lee · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:22 am Post subject:

Hi, Betray,

First, pls advise the PCB No. which was printed in the back side and have some words "REV" here. (It should be "2060-??????- 00? REV ? " , Both old PCB and new PCB)

Let me check if your PCB have its BIOS chip.
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