Smooth chip failure is a very common thing for WD 3.5" drives. In your case its not DIY type of process even if you have an identical board. If you look on the position of U12 chip you will see that it is absent from your board. That means there is no external adaptive data that can be transferred to a donor board. Chances of getting the drive working without matching adaptive data are close to none. You’d need equipment that can reconstruct it, and write it to the donor board.
Smooth chip failure is a very common thing for WD 3.5" drives. In your case its not DIY type of process even if you have an identical board. If you look on the position of U12 chip you will see that it is absent from your board. That means there is no external adaptive data that can be transferred to a donor board. Chances of getting the drive working without matching adaptive data are close to none. You’d need equipment that can reconstruct it, and write it to the donor board.
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Thank you very much for your insight. I contacted donordrives.com and they mentioned that they have a board and can do the adaption process. I am pretty green to all of this and have never heard of this process. But in your opinion with the purchase of a donor board/new board and this adaption process is it reasonable to expect the drive to run again at least enough to get my data off?
