hard drive help

[terryoke]

	01/30/2012 10:56 AM
i have a wd2000js hard drive,The pc is 2003 or 2004 year model.The hard drive card on the drive is apparently burned according to discoloration.My question is ,can I get a driver card or is even a replacement part.The drive will spin with the card from another drive,but all the information on the hard drive cannot be accessed

[TonyPh12345]

You might see if you can find an identical drive on eBay or something and swap the controller card...

[Joe_S]

That or search out the posts by fzabkar. Sometimes you can bypass parts of the board. He has explained about a few times.

Joe

[WebWander]

Just something that I did that might help.  I bought 3 "refurbished" hard drives from an internet site, all of them WD, internal drives, 640 Gig.  One would not turn, another would not recognize the drive, and the third one worked.  They only had a 30 day warranty, so I basically got stuck with them.  In my adventurous mode, I removed the Circuit board from one, that would not recognize the drive, and switched it with the one that would not spin up.  It fixed it, and it seems to work fine. The bad one now will not spin, nor can it be read, but 2 out of 3 is better than 1 out of three.   By the way, they have some great rare earth magnets inside.  One more thing, podnutz had a 1 hour video on repairing a wd hard drive.. It is not worth doing for me, but it tells a lot about the drive, and the bearings, and how they do a repair and data recovery.

[terryoke]

thanks for the reply    the card on the back is obviosly burned (discolored to a brown tint) Tried a card from a different model and could get some data but not all. I think you have answered my question.    the cards "can be replaced".  i had been told 1card 1hard drive.Now if I can find the card from a wd2000js i think    problem solved  thanks a lot

[Joe_S · Accepted solution]

Look through the posts by fzabkar he also explained about matching up numbers. somethimes you can find the cards on Ebay.

Joe