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I know that these pins are not "extra" but I'd like to know what they do... Are they jumpers like the old IDE hard drives had?

WD My Passport USB 3.0 Drive

The drive doesn't want to spin up anymore and I'd like to learn as much about it as I can.

Edit: This topic references the same pins but never answers the question...

Image of the drive label:

WD10TMVW

Looks like a WD10TMVW.

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    They are most likely (primarily) for in-factory testing. Exactly which model of drive is it? Have you checked with Western Digital's support site for some technical documentation? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Dec 11 '13 at 16:02
  • My relatives have the drive; let me get a photo of the label and post it. – Shrout1 Dec 11 '13 at 19:32
  • They're definitely not an IDE interface, I can tell you that for sure -- that'd need 40 pins, not what looks to be a little over a dozen. – Aaron Miller Dec 11 '13 at 20:49
  • @AaronMiller - When he says IDE, he is referring to the master, master only, slave, cable select pins – Keltari Dec 11 '13 at 20:52
  • @Keltari Those would only be present in conjunction with a pin header exposing an IDE interface, which this drive doesn't have. – Aaron Miller Dec 11 '13 at 20:58
  • If the drive won't spin up, your options reduce to shipping it off to some company that does clean-room recovery (and paying them a lot of money), or replacing it and restoring any data you care about from the backup one hopes you have. (Oh, I suppose you could try replacing the logic board, assuming you can find an exactly identical known good drive and that the HDA/logic board connectors make this possible, but your chances of getting away with that are slim at best.) – Aaron Miller Dec 11 '13 at 21:00
  • @AaronMiller The logic board replacement is the only option I seem to have at my disposal, but from the research I've done it appears that the board is inextricably tied to encoded sectors on the disk. I.E. I would have to extract the firmware from the bad board and flash it onto a new replacement board... Does that even seem correct? – Shrout1 Dec 12 '13 at 14:15
  • @Shrout1 I have no relevant knowledge or experience, but it certainly seems plausible to me. – Aaron Miller Dec 12 '13 at 15:39

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