[plug] OT: seeking similar drive for a data recovery

[caston at arach.net.au]

OK the drive is coming up in the BIOS when warm I just had the wrong setting from
last night when I was playing around with CHS values and left it to none d'oh!

The BIOS seems to detect it as like a 8gb HD and a WD400BB even when I put in the
CHS values from the western digital website!

So If there is some way I can get the WD400JB firmware on there it may very well
help.

I tried changing over the logic board from the WD400BB drive but a few critical
screw holes didn't line up.

best regards,

Chris


On Sun  5/04/09 12:21 PM , caston at arach.net.au sent:
> OK.
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> I used to be able to at least get the drive up in the BIOS after it had
> warmed up
> a bit but it seemed to be reporting the wrong size and some of the
> information
> about the drive when displayed in spinrite had funny characters from rarely
> used
> parts of the ASCII table.
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> I was hunting around for another drive that is the same and similar and in
> my
> media centre PC I have a 40gb WD400BB note the drive I want to recover the
> data
> on is a WD400JB.
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> I thinking of somehow trying to get the WD400JB firmware onto the WD400BB
> drive
> and move the platters over. The other possibility of course could be to
> move the
> logic board just in case that helps and would save me the risk of exposing
> the
> platters to dust.
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> best regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Chris 
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> On Sun  5/04/09 10:34 AM , caston at ar
> ach.net.au sent:
> > Does anyone know what *utility* you use to update the
> firmware on WD
> > drives?
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