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yea my damaged drive is not working and is clicking but the pcb board thing for this western digital drive works. Honestly i thought it wouldn't

Even though the drive is damaged i cant believe the pcb board swap worked because data pros said it wouldn't. I put the damaged pcb board from my drive and put it on the replica drive that i got and it put up in windows.

yea it did Not work, i was hopping it would but it sucked. Now its making a power failure noise in the drive with both pcb's boards. :banghead: It starts up and shuts itself off i hope my data is not fried.

OK, so i took the advice to swap my pcb board with a working pcb board and i finally got one. So im going to see if it just works so here goes nothing!!

yea i did and i stopped doing that and the drive seems like its trying to go back to normal after i stopped.

actually in disk management its saying 149 gb again so i guess that was temporally.

ok, so i am going to try and replace the board and i found a very similar pcb board online. but i have a question, i have heard that with recent hard drives you cant just replace the eletric board but you have to take some of the chips off? im not sure if that is true in my case but here is my...

yea actually i did take the power cord out out the drive with out shutting down windows but i thought it was different this way? now my drive is saying 96 gb unallocated in disk management, even though its a 160 gb drive. The 2 partitions are not showing up anymore is the drive slowly falling...

would hooking the ide drive to an ide computer be better than using a ide to sata usb adapter because of so may conversions ?

ok so i finally see my data after restarting the pc But, when i click on many folders windows is saying "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" :confused:

Ok, so i was able to get a tv repair guy to do a quick solder but for some reason the drive is not showing up in my computer :confused: he also put blue tape on the board so the soldered cord cant move

i know what you mean but these guys in my local area keep saying "well we dont wanna take a risk with something sensitive like that so call a pc repair shop!" its mostly tv repair shops that i know of to call because if you try to bring it to a tech no matter what their going to try to sale...

:clap: Great! when i cut the 5v red wire and touch the solder point with it, it powered up just like you guys said it would! i have a usb to ide to sata adapter to transfer the files and at first the drive powered up but did not start making loading noises until i placed the jumper into the...

im going to buy the right solder tomorrow but untill then i was going to test on a junk hard drive cuting off the red 5v cord and glueing the metal wire to the little metal circle on the pcb board. But i have this fear that it will spark lol

i forgot to mention this guy at a junk shop that sells soldering irons told me that i may need a desoldering tool and a soldering tool.