I've been in the computer repair and service business for over 15 years and have never had a component fail this quickly. Normally getting an item like this exchanged by a manufacturer like Western Digital has not been a problem in the past, but recently they have all started making the ...
That having said, the eBay repair service you referred to themselves claim that: Typical bad hard drive circuit board symptoms: No power, No Spin, No Sound. Burning smell. The circuit board is extremely hot. Power surge. connected the hard drive to wrong power supply. Obvious dama...
I've once again ran the WD utility and it passes the quick test, however it fails on the extended test (& cannot repair the bad sectors it found when it attempted to) How come chkdsk isn't finding any errors? I was hoping it would & would then map the bad sectors ...
Of course, it goes without saying, that if you take out a hard drive from its enclosure, youautomatically lose any warranty on the unit. The serial numbers are coded specifically, and if the unit is returned with evidence of tampering, the warranty will be void. As a result,you really d...
In such cases you will need to repair the bridge board, or replace it with one from an identical product of the same capacity. You can tell whether your data are encrypted by examining the bridge IC. For example, if the largest chip on the bridge is an Initio INIC-1607E, then that ...