Hello! I'm new to the site but, it seems absolutely amazing. Yes, I know I'm trying to recreate what the other posters already know, but what I'd like to see is if the VCD comes back with the junk stuff on it.īy the way, the drive is an HP Simplesave 500GB portable hard drive. Right now I'm dd'ing the whole drive (500MByte) with /dev/zero. I know the thought on this thread is that somehow the USB converter board is introducing the VCD. I did notice (and this may have been explained on the very thorough thread) that using gparted I see the entire 500MByte hard drive. I'm actually just trying all of this today. There are three plastic clips on either side that are holding the device together.ģ) Once one side has been opened, the two halves just fold apart. So for everyone else that may be reading this,ġ) Remove the two small screws near the front under the feet.Ģ) Use some type of screw driver to gently pry the case apart on one side. Larry Larry, so the case is simple, and you may have already found the answer. I found two screws under the little feet and I removed them but not wanting to break the case I am stumped. Gaucho, Please help me with how to disassemble outer case of the HP SD320a USB drive. Maybe latter in an external twin HDD container (if I'm successful with that drive, I'll get an other one since it was only 99$ Any 2TB sells for 200$ around here, even mail-ordered, because of Quebec-squid's taxes. For now I wanna run that HDD on the internal connection (if I understood earlier post and some other forums, that drive is suppose to work as itself, as a HDD, without that board). I wanna throw away that board since it is the main cause for this trauma. Soldering is not the problem for me, it's the visual: I would need to magnify that thing 50x cause it's that small and much 8x more circuits than yours (it's on a 2x2½ inch board) and then know what and where to solder (it's really not the same board order). I don't have a cam to show a pic and my scanner is setup on the PC that is running Darik's Boot'n'Nuke (DBAN) for a few more couple of days now. It's a WDC WD20EADS-00W (WD Caviar green) hard-drive setup on a different board and much smaller than the one you have. I'm glad I found this post and that you found a cure for that HP disease.īut mine is a 2TB simplesave. P.p.s.: now you can solder again the pin number 6 and remove the wires.Ĭould someone of the ADMINISTRATORS write on the title of this 3ad the keyworld ? P.s.:i think this task had 0,1% probability of success. At the end i disconnected and reconnected the usb device. You can see in the following picture as it is recognized.ġ1) From WD website i downloaded the tool "WD SmartWare Virtual CD Manager for Windows Web Release-v1.0.8.3.exe" (annexed to this post)ġ2) i used the tool, following the onscreen instructions. 1)i soldered pin number 6 of the flash, as shown in the following picture, to a wire, disconnecting the flash's pin from PCB.Ģ)i soldered a wire to the PCB near pin 6ģ)i connected the hard disk with adapter to usb port of my pc.Ĥ)i opened the utility "Apollo 1607E Firmware Updater v2.018-v2.019 (1.0.8.6).exe" (annexed to this post)Ħ)i selected "Accept" to license agreementħ) i connected both wires between them (by this way the flash becomes writable)ĩ) The utility told me "Update SUCCESSFULL!!"ġ0) i disconnected the usb cable and reconnected it, and now the hard disk is recognized as WD passport device.
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