[clug] WD Caviar Blue 500GB Sata / 16MB Cache

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Sat Feb 7 18:53:14 MST 2015


[repost without image, which was now sent privately]

On 06/02/15 17:40, Keith Goggin wrote:
> I'm trying to recover data from this dead hard disk.
>
> It had minimal use, was in an external hard drive enclosure and showed no signs of life.
>
> I've tried it in a Docking Station again no signs of life.
>
> My only hope now seems to be swapping the external printed circuit board with one from an identical hard drive that has been decommissioned for other reasons.
>
> If anyone has such a candidate for sacrifice or advice why this may be a futile exercise, I'd like to hear.
>
> The board is marked :-
>
>      Rev A
>      2060-771698-004
>
> Thanks

I have two "WD Caviar SE" with a different mobo serial#s that you can try.
Model: WD3200JD-00KLB0

The photo from Steve Barnes did not make it to the list... I hope this one does. [it did not...]

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)



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