WD Passport WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0

[Jared]

Just be careful too that the drive is fully spun down before you remove the PCB. Otherwise you'll get the heads stuck to the platters. This procedure is called a smart hotswap.

 

[vrocco]

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

 

[vrocco]

So before attempting the hot swap, I tried the "Solve 'slow responding' problem" and then SA Translator regeneration. Drive came ready, I was able to read encryption key from mod 25 and view the entire tree in DE explorer.

Saved all files except one jpg that had some bad sectors. Not a bad result at all!

Thanks for all the help on this one.

 

[Jared]

I must have misunderstood. I thought you meant that the drive wasn't coming ready (DRD + DSC) anymore. You meant that it gets ABR when you try to access sectors.

 

[vrocco]

Yes sorry. That was my fault, I'm still new to expressing everything that pc-3000 is showing me. But yes, it wouldn't come ready when I powered on without an error (I think AMN). And then when I tried to access sectors, I got ABR constantly.

Anyway, it was a success! Thanks!