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Configuration: Lacie external USB 2.0 enclosure with a single Western Digital WD1600-55HBC0.
OS/Filesystem: FAT 32
Failure: Common overheating failure due to absense of proper ventilation and drive heat sink causing "Thermal Runaway" of electronic components.
Western Digital Hard Drive Recovery Procedures
- step 1: Locate an identical Western Digital WD1600JD-55HBC0 with DCM: DSBANTJAA
- step 2: Replace burnt chip on the PCB or transfer the flash chip to an identical PCB
- step 3: Replace the Head Stack assembly in a Class 100 Clean Room enviornment
- step 3: Duplicate the Failed Western Digital drive to a suitable destination drive using COPYHD.exe from Data Recovery,inc.
- step 4: If there are any bad sector(s) use data recovery software like GetDataBack
- step 5: If you get a good mirror (less than 1,000 bad sectors) you may be able to run the check disk utility for Windows to repair the file system errors and recover all your files.
- step 6: Dump all the files on a Western Digital Passport USB drive
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