- Jul 5, 2010
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Hello!
I was replacing the PSU in a build and assumed the SATA power connectors were interchangeable since it was the same brand PSU. Upon booting two of my (previously working) HDD were no longer recognized (could not see them in disk management etc.). Tried plugging them into another computer for testing, they do not spin or power up AT ALL. I purchased identical replacement PCBs, and had someone swap the old BIOS chips onto the new PCB boards. I installed the new PCB boards with the old BIOS chips and now the drives are recognized on disk management as well as AOMEI but I cannot initialize them. I have tried both MBR or GPT.
On AOMEI I get an immediate error saying "Failed to initialize this disk". On Disk Management it thinks for a while then tells me: "the semaphore timeout period has expired".
The drives in question are:
4TB WD40EZRX
1TB WD1003FZEX
In my first computer I tried connecting them both directly via SATA cable and neither drive was recognized in the Disk Management application. On my second computer I have the 4TB drive in a USB drive caddy for ease of access and it is recognized but fails to initialize.
I know the PCB/BIOS chip swap was not a guaranteed fix but I am wondering if anyone has any additional guidance or ideas here - nothing critical on the drives just ~5TB of media for my Plex server I'd rather not have to manually rebuild.
Thank you.
I was replacing the PSU in a build and assumed the SATA power connectors were interchangeable since it was the same brand PSU. Upon booting two of my (previously working) HDD were no longer recognized (could not see them in disk management etc.). Tried plugging them into another computer for testing, they do not spin or power up AT ALL. I purchased identical replacement PCBs, and had someone swap the old BIOS chips onto the new PCB boards. I installed the new PCB boards with the old BIOS chips and now the drives are recognized on disk management as well as AOMEI but I cannot initialize them. I have tried both MBR or GPT.
On AOMEI I get an immediate error saying "Failed to initialize this disk". On Disk Management it thinks for a while then tells me: "the semaphore timeout period has expired".
The drives in question are:
4TB WD40EZRX
1TB WD1003FZEX
In my first computer I tried connecting them both directly via SATA cable and neither drive was recognized in the Disk Management application. On my second computer I have the 4TB drive in a USB drive caddy for ease of access and it is recognized but fails to initialize.
I know the PCB/BIOS chip swap was not a guaranteed fix but I am wondering if anyone has any additional guidance or ideas here - nothing critical on the drives just ~5TB of media for my Plex server I'd rather not have to manually rebuild.
Thank you.
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