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Originally Posted by Graham M
IMO that would worry me quite a lot and I would not trust the integrity of the drive, if I were you I'd back the data up and swap the logic board back to the donor disk and start from scratch.
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Yup, done that and come up with something else odd. When I put the logic board back on the donor disk and tried booting from that - same thing with the BIOS but when I went into the BIOS and got it to pick up the HD it saw it as a WD200SEB (20GB) instead of what the drive was, WD400EB...
Both HDs are 40GB ones, the guy I bought it from tested it for a minute and said it was being recognised but didn't seem to be working properly.
With the logic board off the donor drive and on my failed drive it was seen in the BIOS as the WD400EB with the firmware as stated on the failed disk itself.
I'm not confused as to why using the same logic board on two different WD400 drives gets different results in the BIOS...
My thoughts so far are:
1) The donor drive had already had the logic board swapped, maybe with a 20GB WD200?
2) The donor drive has a mechanical or otherwise fault which is misrepresenting the true number of heads and cylinders etc and making it appear as 20GB?
With both drives using the working logic board, the BIOS sticks for about 20 seconds. When I tried a Maxtor 20GB drive, the BIOS screen appeared for a second, followed by POST and was like normal...
Basically, it looks like I have two duff WD400 40GB WD drives...
I've taken an image anyway (thankfully the logic board fix was enough to get the data off - 27GB). I'll just have to get them to fork out for a new drive and image the old one back on it.