Drive is Western Digital(WD10EADS-00M2B1 model).Īll Western Digital hard drives are also well-known for their firmware problems.įirmware of the drive is not located on the logic board as most people think. I would like to do this and would like to know the cost and where to send the device. Your information states that this is a common problem and data recovery is possible. There is a smell of smoke coming from the device. I believe my circuit board has burnt out by a power surge and HD does not spin and appears to be dead. Should this occur the computer would reboot or shut down completely, you would normally notice acrid smell of smoke coming from your PC and when powered on the drive would not spin up at all and appear to be completely dead.
Quite often bad power supply unit combined with power streak is usually enough to fry spindle driver chip on the electronics and make the data inaccessible. WD drives are very vulnerable to overheating, power surges and streaks. When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital(WD) hard drives experience is burnt cuircuit board(PCB). I have checked the PCB and on visible layer there doesnt seem to be any damage. Now Hard Disk is not detecting anymore and there is clicking sound as I turn on the power. My hard disk Western Digital(model WD10EADS-00M2B1) was in portable casing and I had connected it to my laptop and after a few hours a strange whistle sound came and I switched of my Laptop and disconnected my Hard Drive.