Recent content by seasaw

or cloud or raid lol. We're human and aren't always ideal, so it would be nice if our technology allowed for that. Anyway, I ordered the TTL and a WD black 1TB for my OS drive and another WD blue 2TB for my mirrored backup. So I'm all WD now. Everything was shipped today and will be...

I wouldn't say very corroded, but more covered in greyish stuff that was hard to scrub off with an eraser. The video showing the fix had a surprising amount of comments of gratitude indicating that it worked, so I don't know how to place the odds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt4M9b9L2EI...

Ok, I'll get the adapter. I just thought that the problem had to be on the pcb because if it were on the platter, it could not be fixed since the error would have to be fixed before it could be fixed. I still don't understand, but I'll just do what you suggest and discover the genius of it later.

Good point about the heat on the rom chip... I didn't consider that risk enough before. Oh I see. Will I need to type a command to produce the log or will it generate on its own? Thanks for clearing that up since that was the source of my confusion. If the corruption of the firmware is on...

Why is it important to get a terminal log before swapping the pcb? In order to do that, I will need to buy a serial adapter and learn how to use it. I read some pages that are filled with warnings about bricking the drive if inexperienced with the commands. They even recommend using a UPS to...

I will. If I can't do it myself, I can find someone locally to swap it. I have a decent iron and solder-sucker, but not sure if I can solder that small or not. LOL! Good one! I have at least 8 hrs over 2 days of watching videos and reading comments. Good point but my plan is sequential...

Really? That's what I thought too, but I called one of the more-popular youtube content creators who was confident the problem is an inability to read the firmware. To which I replied, "yeah but your comment to another guy on youtube was '99.9% of time if the drive spins it's not the pcb'"...

Hi all! I'm not in the business, but just a guy who invested too much time in youtube tutorials who now thinks he may be able to pull this off :) My question is easy: After I swap the heads, will I need to align, calibrate, program anything? The videos show how to swap heads, but the videos...