I broke the sata data connection on my WD Gold hard drive. Aside from that the drive was working well. With just the connector being damaged do I still need to swap the BIOS chip. I’m not concerned with recovering any of the data on the drive if that makes a difference.
In most cases, the BIOS need to be changed.
You can move the BIOS from your original PCB by using hot-air gun, then solder it on the replacement board. Please refer: https://www.hddzone.com/hard_drive_pcb_firmware_transfer.html. Or you can find an electronics repair shop help you.
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