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Need jumper pin info on a WD5000LPCX WD Blue 500GB
This Sata 3 drive was the boot drive for a laptop bought in 2014. It started presenting problems and it "quit" working about 6 months ago. This was not my computer but a friend of mines estranged gf's computer.
They were interested in trying to retrieve information of the WD-HD. Ik one should backup internal drives but that is not my place they are adults.
Another friend who is a certified computer field technician tried to retrieve data from the WD-HD but was unsuccessful.
I am just a hacker though I have been working on PC desktops and laptops since 1984. It occurred to me back in the day that hard drives could be configured as a primary drive or as a secondary/slave drive depending upon moving the jumper pins around. I went to Western Digital's website and tried to ascertain the jumper settings for that purpose but I am not finding that out. Of course I could just switch pins around and see what results that I have. But I would prefer a definitive jumper settings information.
Since this hd was primarily configured as a primary drive this information may not be readily available on their website.
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