I have a Western Digital 1.5T External Hard Drive that died on me. I took the Hard Drive out of the external casing and pluged it directly into the inside of my computer to see if it was the external part. My computer still would not recognize it, but I could hear the Hard Drive inside spinning. I read somewhere that if your Hard Drive is spinning your data could be fine and the motherboard is what died, and you can replace the motherboard on the Hard Drive with another motherboard from same working Hard Drive and you might be able to get your data off it.
Is swapping out the motherboard on the Hard Drive something I could try or would I be wasting my time?
WD boards have adaptive data on the PCBoard, and a direct swap is likely not to work. If the board has a u12 chip, you can simply move that chip from the patient to the donor. If there is no u12 then special hardware is required to copy the ROM and move it to the donor. There are lots of other causes tho for the drive not being recognized so let's try to get a handle on it. Is it shown in Disk Management? Is it shown in BIOS correctly by model number and capacity?
I have a raid 5 array. The fan went out and 2 of the 5 drives were damaged.
The person how built it says that if I could fix one, he could reconfigure. If I bought the exact same drive, could I replace the motherboard? It is a WD 74 Gig SATA drive. Could you tell me how I could tell if it has a U12 chip on it? Thanks so much, GV
Under BIOS System Summary all it says is SATA Driver 2 (harddisk) which is my external hard drive since I checked the BIOS without it plugged in and with it plugged in. I could not see anywhere in the BIOS menu were it would it would tell me model and capacity?
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