Rebuild WD3200AAJS-00L7A0 ROM

I have a WD3200 with clicking noise, and made a head swap with a very good donor found on ebay.

But I did something dumb...I swapped U12 on the PCBs too. Now the PCB with original U12 does nothing when powered on. So I likely killed the original ROM with too much heat when soldering....

The PCB with donor U12 spins up, and after a few minutes I can even see the partitions in Windows. But Data Extraction doesnt work. So Calibration / Microjog data seems slightly off in donor ROM.

How can I rebuild ROM?

I only have access to free tools like WDR or maybe paid WDMarvel....

Could someone give me some hints?

Thank you!!!!
 

pclab

Moderator
If you can see data with donor ROM, most probably you don't need nothing to do with original ROM.
Can you check modules of the drive?
What are you using for data extraction?
 
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