I just received a Western Digital WD5000AAKS HDD Recovery SATA 3.5'' 500GB but I need a complete assembly with mechanical and electronic units to install it internally on my desktop PC. HDD recovery comes only w/ its mechanical unit. I need the electronic b oard (IDE or SATA). Where can I get it?

WD has a download on their website that will test the drive and estimate it;s condition.

Impossible, this must be a standard, every day HDD. Just check all motherboard drivers, chipset, controllers and cards.

that is a sign that this hard drive is also failing.
please contact WD to RMA this hard drive back.
you can submit a complaint to them saying it is the 2nd drive that you receive that is going bad from them.
they may send you a different model or similar model.

did you put cable on o sata or sata 1 on board needs to be on o sata to start right. look on drive to make sure that it is at factory settings. then plug in power cable and board cable on drive jim

http://www.amazon.com/Syba-Express-ATA133-Controller-Chipset/dp/B000ZD3YA0%3FSubscriptionId%3D16330PR1NAHTNCZP5602%26tag%3Dpriwat-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000ZD3YA0 this will do it for you

the problem is the controler og the drive wich is:
Marvell, 88i6745-TFJ1, internal EEPROM: - this chip is used in Western Digital's Tornado family, eg WD5000AAKS-xxTMA0, WD5000AAKS-xxYGA0, WD3200AAJS. - it has a common failure mode that mimics head/media faults, eg clicking, spin-down.found it here: http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/HDD_ICs.txt

I almost passed up this question, as I have to admit that I did not want to be the bearer of bad news.

Unless the value of the data is sufficiently a large number, and you have not backed up the drive, you
have even worse news ahead of you, with respect to the cost of data retrieval.

Disks are very inexpensive, these days, so I would advise a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
system for your present and future consideration.

you can get the full details here http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2779-001006.pdf as stated in the instructional manual .hope this helps

does your HDD makes a shacking noise when it is running or when you are trying to read or write ont he HDD? if so then you may want to look at checking the HDD for internal damages and if not, you may want to update your MOBO's BIOS.

if you have other questiosn about this issue just lemme know...

Try reseating the power connector for the drive. You can try another unused connector if it will reach. Do the same for the data cable. Reseat both ends of the cable a couple of times to shine up the contacts. If none of this works, then a data recovery service will be needed.