My PCB failed. I sent it to HDD-Parts in Canada, they swapped out the BIOS chip, returned the PCB, but the HDD does not spin up, it is detected by the PC in Computer Management/Disk Management but fails when I confirm MBR. I sent the board back to Canada asking for it to be checked, it came back - n…

WD800 bad PCB

Hallie1953 November 8, 2014, 11:04pm 3

Thanks ArMak.

I gather you mean you have never tried swapping over PCBs, and do you mean this practice is not supported by WD?

Curious, still…