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WD My book flashing light

By pxemad on Jul 04, 2009

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At last I bought a 1Tb hard disk WD my book but I also have a Toshiba laptop which have the same cord end
yesterday i plugged my laptop charger cord into my hard disk and nothing happend but when i plugged the hard cord into it the LED light started flashing rapidly till now

PLZZ help me cause I have important files I dont want to lose

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posted on Jul 07, 2009

crash748

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I think you have burn your power supply coord! Sometime powercoord have the same plug but the voltage are not the same laptop run sometime at 18v when hd is at 12v. On your HD look arround the power coord hole, you should be able to find wich voltage you need to operate it!

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