Hello,
I found this forum via Google, there was someone years ago with a problem close to mine. I tried some other forums but I don’t get any answers so that’s why I am going to try it here because that other guy fixed his problems!
I’m from Holland so there will be mistakes in my spelling.
I own a Western Digital WD2500JS. The disk was in my PC (I bought it 6 years ago). The PC died a long time ago and I bought a laptop. I also bought an External Box so I got all my files back that I had in the time of my PC. From that moment I placed all my files onto that disk and there was nothing on my laptop itself. I though that was the best idea because I take my laptop to college with me every day. A couple of weeks ago I was working on my laptop + External box and when I came back from dinner the External Box light didn’t burn anymore. The disk was dead. I took the disk out of the External Box and saw that a couple of components were burnt on the PCB. I bought the same Hard Disk with the same model number and switched the PCB’s. I put the disk back into the External Box and the disk was alive. I also heard that noise coming out of the laptop when you put in a USB device. But that was all he did, I couldn’t see the disk under ‘My Computer’. When I checked ‘Diskmanagement’ It shows a ‘unknown disk 1’ which is my disk because if I turn my disk off that one disappears. There its said that my disk is 7,46 GB (which must be 250GB). I can’t initialize the disk.
I also tried some programs but none could restore some information on the disk.
Does anyone know something I could try? Maybe some software or replacing some components from the PCB’s.
A picture from the burnt PCB:
So that square chip has some spot
and those 2 components beneath it are burnt
I hope someone could help me
Thanks for reading my story!