Hello everybody! I'm from Uzbekistan. I need help with my Western Digital HDD. It's 250 GB. RPM is 7200. Model nummber is WD2500JS-75NCB2. Drive parameters: LBA 488281250 I connected it unproperly to the motherboard and now it is not working. I showed it to some people who understand that kind of stuff, they opened the HDD and found out that a little thing, called "controller", as they said to me, has been fried up! The HDD came with Dell XPS 200. I bought it in WA. I can't get any support or anything from Uzbekistan. THe only HDDs that are in use in Uzbekistan are Maxtor and Samsung. We're guessing if I had another motherboard/chipset of WD HDD, I would be able to use the HDD again. I have some very important data in the drive. I don't understand anything in this field. And, as far as I know now, I can't buy any Western Digital HDD here in Uzbekistan. I'm attaching the pictures of the HDD. Please, help me! I don't need the HDD itself, I don't want to use it again. I just need the data in it. Is there any other way, if I can't find a way of fixing/replacing the HDD's motherboard? Please, help!...
Ooh, sorry about the bummer dude i feel bad. Well, if the controller is dead... then its dead. I don't see how you can acces it's data with that bad controller. However, i've been researching and there might be something you can try. It's not easy. You'll need to get another Hard Drive of the exact same kind, then open it up and place the whole mainboard (like in your pictures) into your old one. So basically you want to replace your old mainboard with a new one of the same model.
Thank you for your reply. If I did so, won't it effect the other working mainboard? Isn's there any way of taking out the main round metall disk (or whatever you guys call it) and to place it in another working 250 GB HDD of other kind, like Maxtor, Samsung, etc.? How can I recover my data inside?
Apparently there is a way to do that...But it cost mega dollars...and needs to be taken to a professional to do it. It boils down to...Dollars vs Sentiment...and usually Dollars determine the outcome.
You're welcome. If you mean that once you replace your broken mainboard with a new mainboard then yes, the hard drive that you took the mainboard from won't work without it. Sorry to say, but it seems to me that its not worth it unless you have a friend or something with the same hard drive who is willing to take the risk and switch up mainboards!
