WD3200AAKX-083CA1 burned PCB and ROM chip

Received lightning damaged drive. There was horror on the electronic board.

WD3200AAKX-083CA1_pcb

Look at this!

WD3200AAKX-083CA1_MCU1

Desoldered U12 chip and tried reading it with a programmer. Chip was so damaged that even identification failed. I tried a donor PCB and found that heads also is died.

WD3200AAKX-083CA1_heads

After the heads change the SA tracks were readable and I could scan the SA and find all the modules. From the recovered modules the ROM content was successfully rebuilt.

WD3200AAKX-083CA1_donor

And finally, the disk identified without errors and user area got readable. All user data was recovered.