Repairing SATA-Drive

[europanorama]

Maybe i can revive a friends SATA-drive.
Its a WD AAKS 500gb.
I have the same but i dont want to replace a possible defective chip-board by mine.
Would rather get a used one.
Is this a good idea or way to find out if its the electronics?
HDD is not recognized

[Train]

Switch into yours and see it the hdd works.

[europanorama]

I already cleaned the contacts. I wonder if newer PATA have the same simple electronics to replace.

[Steve R Jones]

What is the first part of the story?
Meaning, what steps did you take to determine that the electronics on the drive are bad?

[europanoramic]

Better check working electronics on the bad drive first or vice versa?

BTW: since yesterday login with old name is not working anymore. clicking to old thread-title is resulting in errors. e.g. feedback....
by clicking reply here i see quick reply.

[europanoramic]

Since yesterday-despite removing and allowing cookies, login with old name is not working anymore-for the first time.

clicking on some threads title(e.g. feedback...) is resulting in an error.

[europanoramic]

Should i first try out the electronics of the "bad" drive on the working one? Opr better take no risks and do it the other way round?

[Steve R Jones]

As mentioned in the feedback thread - we're working on it.. Some of the link issue have been fixed this morning.