Question about HDDHackr

[tvdokter]

Hello,
I'm a newbie and I have a question about HDDHackr.
I have a WD10EARS-00Y5B1 Western digital HDD
I used this hdd for back up.
Now on startup this HDD isn't reconiced by the mainboard.
The firmware can't be read from the hdd
Can HDDhackr write the firmware back to the hdd?
Does anyone has the firmware file for this hdd
It's a WD10EARS-00Y5B1 with firmware 80.00A80

Thanks
Regards Ron.

[Arakon]

hddhackr doesn't flash the whole firmware, it merely changes the serial and model number.

[tvdokter]

@arakon

Do you know if there is a program that can flash the whole firmware?
All of my photos and music is on the hdd, and i don't want to lose them.

[bidomo]

@arakon

Do you know if there is a program that can flash the whole firmware?
All of my photos and music is on the hdd, and i don't want to lose them.

ask western digital, they should have something for a full firmware

[d4m4n]

@arakon
Do you know if there is a program that can flash the whole firmware?
All of my photos and music is on the hdd, and i don't want to lose them.

  You got data on the HDD that you want to save and you are messing with the firmware?

It's time since I last used the hddhackr but I remember taking a firmware backup of every HDD. Did you take a backup before flashing?
Maybe some one with the same HDD model has a backup.

[neonpolaris]

It sounds like he never tried to flash it to begin with, that he was never trying to use it in an xbox at all.  His drive suddenly stopped working and he thought that he could fix it by using HDDHackr to restore the stock firmware.  I could be wrong, but that's what it sounded like to me.

Contact WD first (especially if under warranty).  IF it's just a firmware corruption and IF there's some type of recovery for that, they would know best.  Another avenue would be to swap a PCB from another working drive, same model/revision.  If something on the pcb has failed, this could get you going, assuming no other drive failures (drive head, etc).