Western Digital Hard Drive PCB Swap Data Recovery and Bios / Firmware Chip Replacement

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In this video we test swapping out the PCB of a Western Digital hard drive with a similar PCB and transferring the firmware chip as well. This process is used in data recovery when you have a bad PCB and need to swap it with a similar one to try and retrieve data.
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8 дек 2018

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@jeffarmstrong1699 2 года назад

You know what would be nice -- if the HDD makers would make the BIO socketed.... then you would only need a chip puller LOL 😀

@redmadmax Год назад

Amazing! Thank you so much! I just did this and revived my neighbours 3TB HDD! :D

@Alpha-ms9nj 2 года назад

Great informative video. My WD HDD (2005) PCB board fried due to power surge and took out the PSU too. I am currently waiting for my repaired PCB board (BIOS swap) from PCB Solution in Canada. I didn't trust my shaky hands and faltering eyesight to do it myself. I am hoping that the repaired PCB will allow me to clone the old HDD to a new one to possibly boot my computer that now has a new PSU. Thank you for sharing your experience.

@morganscott8535 4 года назад

I have a hard drive i need to do a head swap in, pcb is fine though, do i still need to worry about firmware issues or anything? its a db blue 2.5 4tb drive (5 platter) so say i get a donor drive (exact same model number) would a head swap be as simple as just swapping the heads and i can recover my data?

@Tig3rj Год назад

I know this is an old video but hope to get a response... Is the bios on every HDD different? Even all ones next to each other down the assembly line?

@cloud9photography126 Год назад

do you have to swap the bios chip if you are just replacing bad reader heads?

@equinox747 2 года назад

hi, ive got two WD drives one 1tb that needs a PCB swap. and ive got a 2tb wd exactly the same PCB numbers, except for one digit, ie xxxxxx3006, and xxxxxx3007 would the one digit make a difference in a bios chip swap? cheers

@lordpro 2 года назад

please help me, I also have a dead board (2060-800055-002 REV P1) Purple 4Tb Ordered from China the same board with the same revision. I replaced the BIOS-a chip, but the disk is still not displayed in the system. In the Bios of the computer it is shown as but Gb. But during initialization, it issues an I/O error. How can it be repaired

@scarmoh 4 года назад

I'm having this issue in here

@chiragjhamnani630 3 года назад

explained Nicely. Just wanted to ask can the pcb of WD 500gb hdd work on WD 1tb hdd if i swap bios chip ? Pcbs look almost similar and their number has dffrnce of 1 digit. Plz reply.

@storage2531 3 года назад

Sir i have wd blue failed repair in the auto trex

@musicdaniels 4 года назад

Hi, thank you for this video. Is it possible to avoid the swap of the bios chip by using a tool like ch341? The idea is to read bios data from the old bios chip and write to the new one.

@hansdegroot652 3 года назад

I tried this and ended up with 2 bad disks.. Even when putting the pcb original back it said 2tb bad disk (they are 1 tb disks). I did this back in 2001 and it worked without problems. It seems manufacturers sabotage this?

@UltraLimeLife420 Год назад

What if the disc got scratch on the other side. Will it still work as long as it doesn't make the tick sounds !?

@zeckbig7635 3 года назад

My hard drive suddenly slowed down and broke down and there was a head pounding sound. But when I plug in a pcb with the same serial number, there was no head hitting sound but when the pc did not see the bios can be transferred and say it can be recovered :(

@KTHKUHNKK 3 года назад

Yes my BIOS chip needs to be transferred to the other board.

@andresbudihardja 3 года назад

can u show while released & install main controller ic ?

@memethanYT 4 года назад

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@stevebartosch8694 Год назад

I was encouraged to see that this can be done. However, my local shop is telling me that on my WD 12 TB MyBook (Helium Drive) which stopped spinning and makes no noise at all, that there are multiple chips to be swapped and the estimate is between $900-1800. I've already ordered a donor. (Western Digital WD120EDAZ-11F3RA0 12TB PN:2W10322 US7SAM120 Hard Drive IU HA500). Have you ever done the needed donor swaps on this one?