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aka_bigred · Active contributor Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Posts: 5

MDL: WD3200KS-00PFB0 (Black)
Date: 27 May 2006
DCM: HSCACAJCA
Barcode: 2061-701393-800 AB (on the barcode sticker by sata connectors)
2060-701393-002 Rev.B on the PCB

I'm interested in a matching PCB or a full working drive.

Please post if you have one & we can negotiate a sale price.
Thanks!

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:56 pm Post subject:

Can you describe a behavior of your drive, so we can suggest your course of action.
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aka_bigred · Active contributor Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Posts: 5

Motor spins up fine, sounds like it tries to init the drive, but then clicks. It repeats this several times before giving up and stops trying. As it tries to init, windows will recognize it for a brief moment, only to lose it when it clicks.

BIOS reports drive info correctly. I've tried GNU DDRescue, but it won't read the drive at all. Also tried the freezer method, and that had no effect on it (which I expect after reading up on it).

I'm guessing either the PCB is toast or the read heads. There was no physical damage to the drive (IE wasn't dropped) it just quit working. No visible burn marks on the PBC really that I can tell.

I tried replacing with a board that was from an 2061-701393-800 AA (MFG'd May 10, 2006) whereas mine's an AB version (MFG'd 27 May, 2006), and that does nothing - a couple chips on the board are ever so slightly different. With the AA board installed, the drive spins up, but doesn't click and it will not report any drive info in the BIOS. It looks like I need an exact match.

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:34 pm Post subject:

You might be able to grab an image from this drive by booting from other drive and imaging your drive thru non windows based software.
Do not boot your computer from that drive, you just going to create more problems. Do not freeze it either, it will definitely create more problems.
PCB is not your problem.
If you refer to a pro, it should be inexpensive recovery.
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aka_bigred · Active contributor Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Posts: 5

This is not the boot drive, it is a data-only axillary drive.

I've tried several Linux Live CDs, none of which will successfully mount the drive, so it's not just a windows issue. They also report read errors and will not recognize the drive. I am unable to image as the drive is unmountable.

At this point it is not a software recovery situation - it is definitely a hardware issue at this point. I'm just looking for a donor drive to revive it so I can pull the data that changed since my last monthly external backup.

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:19 pm Post subject:

Based on what you explained, no donor drive/parts will help you.

You should use DOS based cloning software.
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sunnydreamspace · Deadharddrive regular +5 Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 540

hi,
i have different thinking. hope these will help you figure it out.
1, for matching PCB. you just need to matching 2060-701393 be fine. and you had to swap ROM chip from original PCB to good PCB.
2, as my experience i will try PCB first. Wink

3, don't try others way for try to take off data from patient drive. it will become worst.
BTW. have you try with MHDD? it's running in DOS.
i have this PCB In stock. please feel free to contact me by email or MSN if need any help or question. good Luck!
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Eric Lee · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I have this working PCB in stock too, pls contact my hotmail to see if I can help or not.

Thanks
Eric
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makintox · Posted once Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 1

hello
wd3200 my hard drive unbootable.
will hear a noise like (click, click .... click, click ... click, click)
I bought a new pcb, but I broke the U12 chip ROM.
is there any other way to recover the data.
I do not speak English only Spanish, thanks.

Google translator... :-(

aka_bigred · Active contributor Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Posts: 5

The U12 ROM chip holds the exact details of how drive "metadata" is laid out on the physical platters. Every U12 chip gets unique layout information for that particular drive.

Unless your dead drive and the drive the PCB came from *happen* to be close enough (which is very unlikely), you are probably not going to be able to recover the data.

Without that U12 ROM chip from the dead drive, it is virtually impossible to recover data from the dead drive platters.

aka_bigred · Active contributor Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Posts: 5

BTW, I was able to recover the data off my drive. I got a donor drive with model # & Mfg Date as close as I could to the original, and then had to swap the U12 ROM chip.

The donor board I got off ebay for $100. I could have gotten a PCB only for less, but wasn't sure at that point if it was the board or the heads, so by buying a complete donor drive, I got everything.

I can solder, but only "hobby-quality", so I paid an electronics repair place to swap the chip with a high-end hot air solder station. Cost me $15 for the chip swap, but was worth the piece of mind.

After swapping the chip, the drive fired right up and I got all the data back. The drive is still functioning after the resurrection, but I don't exactly trust it to use the drive. It's probably just fine, but I hate to chance it again.

Needless to say, I've got a better backup system in place (knock on wood) and am running RAID1 for mirroring the online data in the event a drive physically craps out on me.