Comments on: Western Digital MyBook Open Case Recover Data http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm You can read it. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:56:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: lallaromana http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-52174 lallaromana Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:52:19 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-52174 Thanks so much for this posting site!! I have (had?) a Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II TB (dual 500 G hard drives). Don't remember hearing the clicks of death, but one day - no recognizo! After a brief heart attack, I searched the internet, found this site, and directed my tech guy to this site also. Long story shorter, purchased a new enclosure (Eagle Consus I-Series) put the drives in, reformatted, no problems since! Luckily, I can rebuild my iTunes from my iPod and the other things I lost are replaceable. Thanks Again!!! Thanks so much for this posting site!! I have (had?) a Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II TB (dual 500 G hard drives). Don’t remember hearing the clicks of death, but one day - no recognizo! After a brief heart attack, I searched the internet, found this site, and directed my tech guy to this site also. Long story shorter, purchased a new enclosure (Eagle Consus I-Series) put the drives in, reformatted, no problems since! Luckily, I can rebuild my iTunes from my iPod and the other things I lost are replaceable. Thanks Again!!!

]]> By: Rob NY http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-52169 Rob NY Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:14:30 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-52169 **RESOLVED ISSUE** / SOLUTION 1. Got a SATA to USB Adapter (about$20) and connected the drive to my laptop. 2.The partition is a EXT3/Linux, that's why I could see it on the Device Mgr but Windows couldn't assign a drive letter. 3.Used this little program to read the linux partition and get all my files! http://www.fs-driver.org/ You ca also try using Ubuntu or Knoppix to reat your Linux partitions! Hope this helps! **RESOLVED ISSUE** / SOLUTION
1. Got a SATA to USB Adapter (about$20) and connected the drive to my laptop.
2.The partition is a EXT3/Linux, that’s why I could see it on the Device Mgr but Windows couldn’t assign a drive letter.
3.Used this little program to read the linux partition and get all my files! http://www.fs-driver.org/
You ca also try using Ubuntu or Knoppix to reat your Linux partitions!

Hope this helps!

]]> By: dooonny http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-52167 dooonny Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:55:39 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-52167 Hello... I have the WD my book essential 320GB and currently blue light is keep blinking constantly, and the laptop wont recognized the hard drive. Tried to connect to other laptop, still won't work. Also, the hard drive seems not spinning. Anyone had this problem? Is the problem on the hard drive or on the circuit board? For getting the data, should I try to open the enclosure and directly connect the hard drive to PC? Hello…

I have the WD my book essential 320GB and currently blue light is keep blinking constantly, and the laptop wont recognized the hard drive. Tried to connect to other laptop, still won’t work. Also, the hard drive seems not spinning.

Anyone had this problem? Is the problem on the hard drive or on the circuit board?

For getting the data, should I try to open the enclosure and directly connect the hard drive to PC?

]]> By: Re-Rewind… « Luís Miranda’s Blog http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-52010 Re-Rewind… « Luís Miranda’s Blog Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:09:30 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-52010 [...] I found this excellent guide by Scott Cramer, which suggested I may be able to recover my data by removing the drive [1] from its case and [...] […] I found this excellent guide by Scott Cramer, which suggested I may be able to recover my data by removing the drive [1] from its case and […]

]]> By: Rob NY http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-51793 Rob NY Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:02:20 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-51793 This was helpful! Thanks! I have the WD 500GB w/ Ethernet and USB connection. I was able to remove it from the enclosure, but when I use connect the drive to my computer, I can see it on the Device manager and also on the Disk manager, but not on "my computer", no letter is assigned to the drive.! I am not able to see my files! ANY suggestions? Thanks! This was helpful! Thanks!
I have the WD 500GB w/ Ethernet and USB connection.
I was able to remove it from the enclosure, but when I use connect the drive to my computer, I can see it on the Device manager and also on the Disk manager, but not on “my computer”, no letter is assigned to the drive.! I am not able to see my files!
ANY suggestions?

Thanks!

]]> By: bossa nova http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-51526 bossa nova Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:35:14 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-51526 I have the My Book Premium Edition 500G hard drive which of course has failed. It is recognized in the Device Manager but I cannot access the drive (there is no drive icon). My computer is an old Sony PCV-RX560. I think my PC supports ATA instead of SATA. Can I remove the external hard drive from the casing and perform the procedure explained by Scott Cramer? I have the My Book Premium Edition 500G hard drive which of course has failed. It is recognized in the Device Manager but I cannot access the drive (there is no drive icon). My computer is an old Sony PCV-RX560. I think my PC supports ATA instead of SATA. Can I remove the external hard drive from the casing and perform the procedure explained by Scott Cramer?

]]> By: Martin http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-50892 Martin Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:54:25 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-50892 Thanks for the instructions. You wouldn't think there'd be much difference between the 320 and the 500 as far as the case is concerned, but alas there is. However, my hd has a ide cable, not sata as expected. Not sure why, but made it a little more difficult to connect to my computer. But once I got it in, all was good. Thanks for the instructions. You wouldn’t think there’d be much difference between the 320 and the 500 as far as the case is concerned, but alas there is.

However, my hd has a ide cable, not sata as expected. Not sure why, but made it a little more difficult to connect to my computer. But once I got it in, all was good.

]]> By: Fisslefink http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-50728 Fisslefink Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:16:30 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-50728 Thanks for the post! I have a 1TB Western Digital MyBook Studio (silver). Between your post and this other post ( http://www.carltonbale.com/2008/01/western-digital-my-book-opening-the-case-removing-the-drive/ ) I was able to swap the 1TB drive for an old 250GB Western Digital SATA drive (and use the 1TB drive internally in my server) Important note: At first, the 250GB drive was not recognized by the enclosure! I run linux, and after plugging it in with USB, I saw lots of these errors when I typed dmesg|tail into the terminal: [ 590.201208] usb 5-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [ 593.265868] usb 5-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -110 [ 601.944938] usb 5-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 [ 605.009597] usb 5-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -110 [ 613.688799] usb 5-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 ...and so on up to address 23 before I finally unplugged it. The Firewire connection didn't fare any better: mythtv@mythtvbox:~$ dmesg|tail [ 230.266440] scsi 8:0:1:0: [ 230.266444] command: Test Unit Ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 230.274818] scsi 8:0:1:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery [ 230.274881] ieee1394: sbp2: scsi_add_device failed [ 231.112122] ieee1394: sbp2: Logged out of SBP-2 device [ 479.899055] ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 [ 479.899313] ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0090a9581804443c] [ 489.463441] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023 ...but the drive was never recognized Anyway, here is how I fixed it: The onboard chipset memory of the MyBook Studio needed to be reset. When you remove the metal shielding, you see the circuit board and all of the different components. One of them is two metal prongs, an empty jumper (J6), sticking out of the circuit board, near the DC power input. By shorting those jumpers with a metal screwdriver for 2 seconds (with the drive OFF and the power cord REMOVED!), I was able to reset it so it would recognize my new drive. For what it's worth, I also used a traditional jumper shunt (those darn little black things that get lost all the time!) to connect the jumpers at OPT1 on the 250GB drive itself. This switches it from the faster "SATA 2" 3.0GB/s transfer rate to the slower 1.5GB/s rate, which I think the enclosure chipset also appreciated. Now the drive just works when I plug it in! Again, thanks for the info, and good luck to everyone out there! Thanks for the post! I have a 1TB Western Digital MyBook Studio (silver). Between your post and this other post ( http://www.carltonbale.com/2008/01/western-digital-my-book-opening-the-case-removing-the-drive/ ) I was able to swap the 1TB drive for an old 250GB Western Digital SATA drive (and use the 1TB drive internally in my server)

Important note: At first, the 250GB drive was not recognized by the enclosure! I run linux, and after plugging it in with USB, I saw lots of these errors when I typed dmesg|tail into the terminal:

[ 590.201208] usb 5-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 593.265868] usb 5-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 601.944938] usb 5-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[ 605.009597] usb 5-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 613.688799] usb 5-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
…and so on up to address 23 before I finally unplugged it.

The Firewire connection didn’t fare any better:
mythtv@mythtvbox:~$ dmesg|tail
[ 230.266440] scsi 8:0:1:0:
[ 230.266444] command: Test Unit Ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 230.274818] scsi 8:0:1:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
[ 230.274881] ieee1394: sbp2: scsi_add_device failed
[ 231.112122] ieee1394: sbp2: Logged out of SBP-2 device
[ 479.899055] ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023
[ 479.899313] ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0090a9581804443c]
[ 489.463441] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
…but the drive was never recognized

Anyway, here is how I fixed it:

The onboard chipset memory of the MyBook Studio needed to be reset. When you remove the metal shielding, you see the circuit board and all of the different components. One of them is two metal prongs, an empty jumper (J6), sticking out of the circuit board, near the DC power input. By shorting those jumpers with a metal screwdriver for 2 seconds (with the drive OFF and the power cord REMOVED!), I was able to reset it so it would recognize my new drive.

For what it’s worth, I also used a traditional jumper shunt (those darn little black things that get lost all the time!) to connect the jumpers at OPT1 on the 250GB drive itself. This switches it from the faster “SATA 2″ 3.0GB/s transfer rate to the slower 1.5GB/s rate, which I think the enclosure chipset also appreciated.

Now the drive just works when I plug it in!

Again, thanks for the info, and good luck to everyone out there!

]]> By: alberto castro http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-50713 alberto castro Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:05:57 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-50713 Hello: hope anyone can help me, i got a Western My Book of 160Gb and i've lost the AC adapter power cord, which voltage should i use to tun it on? thanks a lot Hello:
hope anyone can help me, i got a Western My Book of 160Gb and i’ve lost the AC adapter power cord, which voltage should i use to tun it on? thanks a lot

]]> By: bill http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-50366 bill Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:30:14 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm#comment-50366 Thanks for the post, it was very helpful in dissasembling my drive. I however had the 500gig world edition, which connected to sata was unreadable by disk manager (because of the unix os on the drive). I figured out a way to get the data using linux. If you need instructions, I posted them here: http://randomlylearned.blogspot.com/2008/09/recover-data-from-my-book-world-edition.html Thanks for the post, it was very helpful in dissasembling my drive. I however had the 500gig world edition, which connected to sata was unreadable by disk manager (because of the unix os on the drive). I figured out a way to get the data using linux. If you need instructions, I posted them here: http://randomlylearned.blogspot.com/2008/09/recover-data-from-my-book-world-edition.html

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