Recent content by markhig2

Hi, I have recently purchased 2 hard drives model number WD1600JS-62MHB5.Both of these drives have been removed from Sagem IHD 91 pvr boxes. When plugging these drives into an external usb caddy my pc recognises them but then wont let me do anything with the drive ie format, read or write...

I think with these drives this data is stored on the ROM chip, the same idea as the WD ROYL drives. All i had to do was find a donor board, swap the ROM chip and the drives now work a treat. In response to your question, originally the drives did not spin at all.I had around 40 of these...

Hello, I am trying to swap the PCB on a seagate pipeline HDD model number ST3320310CS.(all the pcb's i am replacing are from drives which are not spinning up) I have matched all the numbers which are normally required but all i am getting is corrupt firmware. Does anyone have any idea...