So, initially, I thought my drive's PCB was not working, so I ordered a replacement board and sent my bad board to the company so they could do the firmware transfer. Finally got my new and bad board back yesterday. The platters spin, the drive shows as 'My Passport' on the taskbar, but it does not appear as an accessible drive. So, I opened up the drive, and this time I noticed the top head is damaged. So, I took that head out and put in a good set of heads from an identical model (yes, I backed up the data on that drive to a new drive I recently bought before taking ts head out.). Still cannot access the drive. So, I plugged it in again with the cover off, and noticed that the heads are not moving onto the platters. Why are the heads not moving? Did I do something wrong while installing the healthy heads?
And people, please refrain from telling me that I have ruined the drive by opening the cover. I have done it before to unstick heads from platters on an older drive, and I was able to recover most of my files that time. Just tell me if there is anything I can do to get the heads to read the drive.
And people, please refrain from telling me that I have ruined the drive by opening the cover. I have done it before to unstick heads from platters on an older drive, and I was able to recover most of my files that time. Just tell me if there is anything I can do to get the heads to read the drive.