Converting 5TB WD USB External Hard Drive to Sata for Data Recovery 

Thanks, this is the only video that explained why I needed a donor board because theres no way to directly connect to WD

Hi, were did you purchase the data board? Could you please post a link?

any speed increase or is it roughly the same?

Could I do this to simply convert a functioning WD My Passport to SATA? Without needing a decrypted PCB? I can swap BIOS chips around no problem, but if still doesn't let me access the existing data I wouldn't care as there is nothing of importance on there, I just want more internal drives

I wonder where I can find that kind of board

Nice video...could you tell me the board number you used to search for it on the web, I need to make that change on my disk...thanks

how to do decryption of the donor board?

Do Seagate hard drives have encryption? If not, does that mean it is easier to recover data from them?

So where to get a sata board? I tried everywhere.

Did you ever make the video showing you replace the BIOS chip? Thanks SO MUCH for this video, I'm trying the impossible to fix some of my own hard drives & this video of yours gives me hope (at this point...hope is priceless, hah!)

So where can we buy the sata board?

Can you please tell me from where i can buy this pcb board or sata

If I have exact identical one, can I swap the board ?

How can I get ahold of you to see if you have a board that will be close to mine

My sound is just normal when plugged until like a minute and then the sound of rolling stops periodically but the light is still on, could u tell me which part is this that needs to be looked at

After 10 minutes I learned the simple solution is don't get a western digital hard drive. I was kind of hoping this would be a video showing you how to de-solder a usb attachment, and how to solder a sata connector and which wires go where. Or would the physical encryption prevent you from using the sata connector because it's a different form of hardware? I really hate Western Digital.

whats the screw type to open the motherboard?

if we can get a donor from the exact same models and same capacity/size, can it work normally ?

Will the drive work by swapping the PCB if you just want to upgrade an already empty drive from mini USB to SATA or type c ?

Can u name that screw driver that u use to remove the board from back

Can I just get the new SATA board and it can work? I will NOT be recovering the data, I just would like to use it. I already have everything backed up in a different way. From what I saw it seems like this could work, you said it wouldn’t but I don’t care about the data on there I will overwrite

hey so I have this hard drive which receives power, the laptop detects it and it dies later on, crashing my pc for a bit.. still has power, has a strange vibration to it though, not the normal type what do you think the problem would be?

You skipped over an important part how do you get the motherboard off the hard drive I can't figure it out

Need replacement for WDBBEP0010BRD-01 Old WD My Passport?

Thanks for the explanation! Will it be continued in the next video? I'm wondering if it's possible to convert a 4Tb My Passport drive with 800041 board into SATA (no data recovery is required). What time of the replacement board did you buy for 800041?

How you open it?

Excellent info.

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Nice video. You are very knowledgeable! God bless :)

And if you have dropped clicking hard drive and there problems with heads and firmware you need use WD TREX or WD Explorer to upload raw firmware and collect all firmware from surface. After than possible disconnect and pair damaged heads. This hard drive will not start if one of the heads have reading problem so need upload firmware to memory first and after adjust heads parameter or pair heads for reading data. so after reading good heads need replace heads. For that need find out right heads use heads compatible table from WD. use heads need reset MR settings and use cript to calculate it if it necessary for new heads. Upload firmware to memory start it and read rest heads use head map. I can provide that software and access to WD account if it necessary.

Yeah I also want to know which size screwdriver was used

too much talking.... where can you get that donor board?

Anybody can explain why USB external hdd always fail in their controller? Why rhe SATA can survive a decade, but usb hdd not

isnt the 6 pin just a funny version of a sata data connector missing a ground

Do it practically. No theories.

These thick weird in-between drives are such trash.

I'll buy Seagate in the future I guess. No encryption or firmware uploads. Just swap the enclosure. WD...yeesh, I love them, but....yeesh!

Its just a PCB, not a motherboard.

Awful video.

Doug DeMouro of computers!