Converting 5TB WD USB External Hard Drive to Sata for Data Recovery

[@dwightjarrett4980]

Thanks, this is the only video that explained why I needed a donor board because theres no way to directly connect to WD

[@ematosjr]

Hi, were did you purchase the data board? Could you please post a link?

[@punktkomma9489]

Could I do this to simply convert a functioning WD My Passport to SATA? Without needing a decrypted PCB? I can swap BIOS chips around no problem, but if still doesn't let me access the existing data I wouldn't care as there is nothing of importance on there, I just want more internal drives

[@magnumcamels]

Doug DeMouro of computers!

[@noperception5073]

After 10 minutes I learned the simple solution is don't get a western digital hard drive. I was kind of hoping this would be a video showing you how to de-solder a usb attachment, and how to solder a sata connector and which wires go where. Or would the physical encryption prevent you from using the sata connector because it's a different form of hardware? I really hate Western Digital.

[@ExCamelJockey]

Did you ever make the video showing you replace the BIOS chip? Thanks SO MUCH for this video, I'm trying the impossible to fix some of my own hard drives & this video of yours gives me hope (at this point...hope is priceless, hah!)

[@Bramon83]

any speed increase or is it roughly the same?

[@5520211]

how to do decryption of the donor board?

[@rowaidaali4342]

My sound is just normal when plugged until like a minute and then the sound of rolling stops periodically but the light is still on, could u tell me which part is this that needs to be looked at

[@lapfix]

The head may be stuck or have issue

[@dgarner0831]

You skipped over an important part how do you get the motherboard off the hard drive I can't figure it out

[@pavlosconstantinou9236]

I wonder where I can find that kind of board

[@jec_ecart]

Excellent info.

[@wdunn06]

So where can we buy the sata board?

[@pyracurse]

Do Seagate hard drives have encryption? If not, does that mean it is easier to recover data from them?

[@fifa22myanmarbyye65]

If I have exact identical one, can I swap the board ?

[@ahmedhamdhhussainzuhair5867]

hey so I have this hard drive which receives power, the laptop detects it and it dies later on, crashing my pc for a bit.. still has power, has a strange vibration to it though, not the normal type what do you think the problem would be?

[@lapfix]

There may be a problem with the hard drive motherboard and it is causing a short to your laptop

[@ahmedhamdhhussainzuhair5867]

@@lapfix I did hear sth getting shorted initially

[@insomniaholics]

Definitely bad sectors, parts of the disk are damaged and hard to read, usually inn the service area. The hard drives trying to work, and gets stuck in a loop. Can slow your PC to a crawl. Very common.

[@rzrgaming5846]

Yeah I also want to know which size screwdriver was used

Will the drive work by swapping the PCB if you just want to upgrade an already empty drive from mini USB to SATA or type c ?

[@user-tq5pt6nq3n]

whats the screw type to open the motherboard?

[@marcinstein7405]

Nice video. You are very knowledgeable! God bless :)

[@jaya_surya_a5118]

Can u name that screw driver that u use to remove the board from back

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

screw driver

[@homebrewGT2]

So where to get a sata board? I tried everywhere.

[@syarifnm3047]

if we can get a donor from the exact same models and same capacity/size, can it work normally ?

[@777brightstar]

im not 100% sure but i would guess no, because of the list oft bad sectors is different and the encryption key is most likely different if present.

[@manuelzappu8762]

How you open it?

[@shanveeru9]

Do it practically. No theories.

[@robertmckelvey3091]

How can I get ahold of you to see if you have a board that will be close to mine

[@Nasir-xs2wj]

Can you please tell me from where i can buy this pcb board or sata

[@Alex626_]

Thanks for the explanation! Will it be continued in the next video? I'm wondering if it's possible to convert a 4Tb My Passport drive with 800041 board into SATA (no data recovery is required). What time of the replacement board did you buy for 800041?

[@googlacco]

isnt the 6 pin just a funny version of a sata data connector missing a ground

[@CrashCarson14]

Can I just get the new SATA board and it can work? I will NOT be recovering the data, I just would like to use it. I already have everything backed up in a different way. From what I saw it seems like this could work, you said it wouldn’t but I don’t care about the data on there I will overwrite

[@strategicthinker8899]

These thick weird in-between drives are such trash.

[@pawek9528]

Need replacement for WDBBEP0010BRD-01 Old WD My Passport?

[@jmastergeneral9836]

Dónde estas ubicado?

[@oleggritsev]

And if you have dropped clicking hard drive and there problems with heads and firmware you need use WD TREX or WD Explorer to upload raw firmware and collect all firmware from surface. After than possible disconnect and pair damaged heads. This hard drive will not start if one of the heads have reading problem so need upload firmware to memory first and after adjust heads parameter or pair heads for reading data. so after reading good heads need replace heads. For that need find out right heads use heads compatible table from WD. use heads need reset MR settings and use cript to calculate it if it necessary for new heads. Upload firmware to memory start it and read rest heads use head map. I can provide that software and access to WD account if it necessary.

[@spudwas]

I'll buy Seagate in the future I guess. No encryption or firmware uploads. Just swap the enclosure. WD...yeesh, I love them, but....yeesh!

[@syarifairlangga4608]

Anybody can explain why USB external hdd always fail in their controller? Why rhe SATA can survive a decade, but usb hdd not

[@jinlsui]

too much talking.... where can you get that donor board?

[@7on]

Its just a PCB, not a motherboard.

[@mjr1965]

Awful video.