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I put my laptop cord in WD book andnow does not work to




By dominic229 on Aug 24, 2009

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dont know what to do took to a comp shop and they tried to fix, it only came back worse now it does not event turn on...before it turned on but did not register with computer....

i have got to get into off drive i am taking to data recovery any other ideas?

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posted on Aug 24, 2009
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ElDopa

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Sounds like you fried the circuit in the WD. Hopefully it's not the HDD electronics but only the power-connector electronics.

You could try to disconnect and remove the HDD from the WD book and hook it up to a computer 'internally'. If it's recognized, the HDD itself is probably fine and you should be able to rescue the data.

If not, the HDD electronics are probably fried too, meaning that for data recovery, the electronics on the HDD have to be replaced, which requires a "donor HDD" (of exact the same type). That would be a very expensive data recovery (in both parts and labor).
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