Hello,
I have a broken PCB on my WD-hard drive.
By just replacing the PCB the hard drive spins up, but isn't recognized in windows. So, the Bios from the broken board should be placed on a donor board to get it working again.
I searched for a company (in the Netherlands) to replace the BIOS. They told me they could do it, but the other day they called me to tell that one of the legs of the bios was broken off of the chip.
Now, I just took the risk to connect the drive to my pc with the donor board without the original bios.
When I go to disk management I can see the drive, but it says: Not initialized.
I want to know: if I initialize the drive, will my data on it be lost?
or, can you get the data back after initializing with some kind of software tool?
Maybe there are people here in the the forum from the Netherlands that have experience with a company who might try to fix the broken bios?
Regards, Peter
I have a broken PCB on my WD-hard drive.
By just replacing the PCB the hard drive spins up, but isn't recognized in windows. So, the Bios from the broken board should be placed on a donor board to get it working again.
I searched for a company (in the Netherlands) to replace the BIOS. They told me they could do it, but the other day they called me to tell that one of the legs of the bios was broken off of the chip.
Now, I just took the risk to connect the drive to my pc with the donor board without the original bios.
When I go to disk management I can see the drive, but it says: Not initialized.
I want to know: if I initialize the drive, will my data on it be lost?
or, can you get the data back after initializing with some kind of software tool?
Maybe there are people here in the the forum from the Netherlands that have experience with a company who might try to fix the broken bios?
Regards, Peter
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