I have a WD disk, with a broken head. So I ordered a spare, and replaced it. I've created a homemade tool to keep the heads from touching each other. I also replaced the PCB. Drive spins up normally again, without nasty clicks.
The drive failed to initialize in Windows, so I tried TestDisk. The weird thing is the size of the disk. TestDisk displayed it as 11TB. It should be 500GB. I must admit that the spare-drive didn't match exactly with the broken one. The model was ofcourse correct, but the DCM, DCX and LBA differs. Maybe that's causing the problem with the size?

It didn't show any partitions, so I did a Quick Search. Read errors keep counting up. I calculated the current search-speed and it should finish in about 11 days...


Do you think I have any chance in getting my data back? Is there any other method I should try?
Thanks!
Muloza