PCB of WD 2TB HDD


I am looking to buy donor board for my nearly dead WD 2tb hdd. The pcb board looks like above.

Will update this post with more details soon.
( Right now I am tired as I tried everything I could think of to make hdd work on usual original ntfs format.
So, I was thinking what would happen if I change the pcb will I be able to use it without formatting to ext4. )

Swapping pcb alone won’t work, you will need to take out BIOS from old pcb and put it in the new one. Your best option for pcb is eBay.

thanks for the info. :slight_smile:
tch now this is seeming more and more hard/feasible for tinkering

Any mobile repair shop guy with basic knowledge of soldering will do it

okay i didnt expect this could be that easier. i am noob, new uncharted territory for me this exchange hdd pcb stuff

thank you for this.

1 Like