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Sorry mate, I completely overlooked your post! The full model number is: wd10jmvw-11ajgs3 Update: I managed to find a suspiciosly low cost disk repair service in my town. As I said I don't really mind on what's inside the disk so I bring it to those guys more than two weeks ago aaaand... It's...

And that explains why there simply isn't a realiable superchinese cheap clone of such PC3000 solution: cloning the hardware isn't the real task there. Makes sense.

Interesting. So guess I'll stick with SATA. Too bad that looks like there's no way to check at least the firmware by myself without a PC3000 or similar ultraexpensive device.

You're probably right, it's just weird that with some U12 it's detected but the disk doesnt' move at all, and with others happens exactly the opposite. I read around that the not-spinning discs is a symptom of U12 corruption (disks are disabled if U12 fails its own checksum), so i didn't...

USB is 2060-771961-001 REV B SATA is 2060-771960-000 REV A

Ok so i moved the U12 content into the SATA PCB's U12, gave it a try, disc spins (!!!), BUT the HDD is detected as Unknown Device - damn! :) Am I moving closer to a solution? Do you know if is there an utility or something I can use to check the U12 content for errors? (i have the.bin file)

That's nice from you, thank you. At the moment I'm more interested into learning something new about data recovery than recovering those data (however I'm beginning to be curious now... I really can't remember what was on that drive :-P ). I will consider your offer when i'll have nothing else I...

HOLYCOW! Ok that's too much :-) I live in Italy. Any other less expensive tool I can try? I really can't figure out why it doesn't spin... I gave a try to flash the U14 too, that makes the drive spin, but it isn't recognized anymore. At least i know that the new PCB can make the disk spin...

Well I have a kind of repair lab myself so maybe I wouldn't mind to have another tool around, even if I don't plan to use it a lot, if it has a reasonable price, ofc. Also I'm not much interested on what's on my hard drive (I can barely remember), it's more about learning new stuff :-) I stil...

Oh I thought I was on the right way because of the oxidation... And the fact it now has a different behaviour with the new PCB but old U12. So why it's different with this one? They should just be the same now... But one make the disk spin but isn't detected, and one is detected but doesn't make...

Hello guys, so I have this Western Digital WD Elements (one of those without SATA connectors, USB only) which suddenly stopped working laying around since a while, and I decided to try to resurrect it. When connected to a PC it lights up, motor starts spinning (no weird noises, seems just like...