I've had a 4TB EasyStore drive for a few years that never leaves the desk and I've been sick of needed a power brick for it. Thanks to this vid I've popped the drive out and it's going straight into the tower. Thanks!
This is not how you open this drive, unless you don’t want to close it again. Your method destroys the little plastic clips. The cover can slide off, you just need to pry it in the proper locations. If you imagine the drive as a book, with the spine of the book being the side that says Western Digital, you simply pry between the spine and the cover. The cover should slide off away from the back side with the ports.
I followed this video to get hard drive out when the power surge fried the box. I can vouch for this video. Thanks! Next step now is to recover the data that is no longer accessible due to the power surge.
@@TonyTascioglu Within that week I used getdataback recovery program and managed to recover most of the data from it. Used a friend's key to get the full version to do so. All good and I've thrown out the plastic casing to the recovery. Thanks a lot for the video that started all this.
Thank you so much! 2 years old, but still extremely useful. My drive basically got fried and I am trying to see if I can salvage years of data I have saved on it.
Nice! now, I can hopefully recover my data...I don't really care about the case...knowing it's the usual sata hard drive in there...I'm happy to do the rest. thanks. ✌
Literally why I had to this the first time... Stopped showing up on my computer, turns out, the SATA drive in it was just fine and is still running (it's the one I used to demo in this video!) but it was just the USB+Power to SATA board that was malfunctioning. Not the first I've seen either, I guess they just aren't that robust.
I will never again buy WD MyBook. Two of mine stopped working. So far no problems with Seagate. But the best solution is the docking station. I’ll try to remove my two WD HDDs from their enclosures and hope the drives do actually still work.
@@j.p.9522 We had a language training center at the WDD manufacturing plant here in Thailand. Having dealt with the staff, I’m not surprised anymore why WDD’s quality has gone downhill.
The docking station has been a lifesaver for multiple drives for me as well. One advantage WD externals have over Seagate is for their 8TB drives: Seagate 2-8TB are all SMR, for WD, only 2-6 are SMR, with the 8's remaining CMR drives.
@@TonyTascioglu Oh, I’m starting to feel old and out of date. Have to google the terms SMR, CMR. I can only say that the WD drives are a noticeably fatter/higher than the Seagate drives. All mine are 2-3TB range. I will eventually buy 3x 12TB and consolidate many small drives onto 3 large ones. (Or maybe wait for 18TB to be available at a reasonable price.)
did it work? mine still works in its case but sluggish, pc struggles at times to reconcile it and not all folders are accessible causing a crash. i hope connecting it directly to the pc i will be able to retrieve all files. though to be fair it is 13 years old now and had left it in the draw unused for at least 5 years.
I do still read them! It's just been a hectic time since I was finishing my last semester and am in the middle of a move. If you had a power surge, it's a game of luck. If the power supply and sata adapter board took the damage and left the drive untouched, it should mount. If the surge made it past the power supply, the sata board, and into the drive, you may be looking at professional data recovery unfortunately.
Wow wd drm for harddrives. That's cold. I'm guessing that stops people from taking out the hard drive, then throwing in a cheap one and ask for a refund at the store while keeping the good drive. Or swap for lower TB drive in and keeping the higher and refund. Also hope the store doesn't check.
Hey, I have a 4TB WD My Book and when I extract the disk from the enclosure and connect it direct to the sata and power in my pc I cant access the drive but i see him. This external dock will bay pass the pcb in the enclosure and I would be able to access the files in the disk?
I'm not quite sure I understand what you're referring to, but if the drive shows up but throws IO errors, that could be something wrong with the drive. See if you can get SMART readings with a tool like `smartmontools` on Linux or crystaldiskinfo on Windows. Some WD drives need the 3.3V pin taped over to work when not in the enclosure - if it's a "WD White" drive generally.
Depends what password you mean. If full disk encryption like LUKS or Bitlocker, removing the disk will have no effect If files are owned by your user and you forgot the password on the laptop - probably.
