HDD Logic Board Fried

[sup3rn0th1ng]

I have a 1.5TB western digital drive, about a week ago it died. I checked the logic board and it must have suffered from a power surge. I purchased a duplicate drive same make and size, replaced the logic board. My computer will not see the HDD in bios, but not windows. Has anyone ever had experience replacing a logic board before?

Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[oynaz]

My computer will not see the HDD in bios, but not windows.

What do you mean?

 

[tynopik]

I have replaced logic boards before, but it is a very iffy proposition. You need to find one as close to your manufacturing date as possible. Which means scouring ebay, and even then you need to guarantee that the label shots are of the actual drive for sale and not just stock photos.

Once I found a drive that manufactured just 2 months after mine and the swap didn't work. Found another that was manufactured 1 month earlier and it did work.

 

[sm625]

I tried it once but aborted when I realized they were not exactly the same. These were WD200 drives. I must have 20 of em laying around now and I swear they all have different boards.

OP, I think oynaz is asking "what do you mean" because your statement is ambiguous, possibly containing a critical and insuperable grammatical error:

My computer will not see the HDD in bios, but not windows.

 

[ElFenix]

I have replaced logic boards before, but it is a very iffy proposition. You need to find one as close to your manufacturing date as possible. Which means scouring ebay, and even then you need to guarantee that the label shots are of the actual drive for sale and not just stock photos.

Once I found a drive that manufactured just 2 months after mine and the swap didn't work. Found another that was manufactured 1 month earlier and it did work.

i've tried to do this as well, had what were to me identical drives. swapping the logic board didn't work.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I did it at least 3 times with IBM Deskstar drives. Just swapped them and everything worked. Now I don't know if it made a difference but this was way back in the 90s and I was using these drives on a Mac at the time.

 

[SKORPI0]

Tried that too on a WD 80GB IDE drive with the board having a burned part. Had another working WD 80GB IDE drive with an identical logic board down to the version number, 20 days manufacture date difference. Both drives made in Malaysia. Didn't work. Drive started clicking as soon as put power on.

Couldn't recover the files that were needed since the person using it didn't make back ups. D:

 

[mfenn]

I did it at least 3 times with IBM Deskstar drives. Just swapped them and everything worked. Now I don't know if it made a difference but this was way back in the 90s and I was using these drives on a Mac at the time.

Drives in the 90's were a lot simpler than they are today. Modern drives have logic boards that are individually tuned to that particular motor and head assembly's characteristics. Drives manufactured close together in time tend to have the same characteristics, which is why its important to have the dates match as closely as possible.

 

[Dipak137]

The firmware version on both HDDs have to match.

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