Usually the problem with drive initialization can be related to bad heads, damaged Service Area or media damage. How to bypass the initialization errors if RAM head map editing does not help, and get an access to patient Service Area with the original heads?
In this article we briefly review the method for Service Area access if WD drive can not start by itself, and we need to save the patient modules for Smart Hot-Swap. The procedure is very simple, but useful a lot for data recovery.