Data recovery in silver I

A common problem in WD drive is couldn’t access the data area. Especially in some case which has changed the PCB, here is a case about this problem:

The customer said that the PCB of the drive was burn. So he changed the PCB, and now the drive could be detect (this is silver I series, need not match the ATA). But still couldn’t access the data area. As the following picture:

We can see all the HDD parameters could be detected well, but try to access the data are, all 6666 bits.

The possibility reasons:

1. Translator modules problem
2. Adapt modules problem
3. Be locked

Apparently it is not locked, so we try to rebuild the translator modules first:

Then power off and on, try to access data area again:

Now the drive returns to normal working status, and we could get data back.

If it still now work, try to upload the adaptor parameter module, it would be ok.

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