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Eugene

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2. My experience is with a 2TB WD MyBook.

Reply to pstokely (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 05:23 AM

Jan 2018

YMMV. The MyBook was a desktop-compatible HDD inside a custom enclosure.

In my situation, the USB enclosure was fried. I took the MyBook apart and plugged the HDD into a desktop PC. The drive was still good, but the file table was zapped. Recuva was able to undelete the files, but it was cleaner to restore from backup. I put the HDD in a new USB enclosure and the HDD lasted a total of 4 years.

As for the SD card, Recuva is said to work and there is an Android app for it, but I haven't tried it.

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any way to recover files from a failing WD Passport external HD [View all] pstokely Jan 2018 OP

You can try this Cattledog Jan 2018 #1

My experience is with a 2TB WD MyBook. Eugene Jan 2018 #2

was it under warranty? pstokely Jan 2018 #3

Try this. Renew Deal Jan 2018 #4

will that even work if the HD isn't being detected by windows? pstokely Jan 2018 #5

Is the USB connection detected? Renew Deal Jan 2018 #6

it shows in the Safety Remove Wizard but not in Windows disk managment pstokely Jan 2018 #9

windows will often not show the disk if the partition table is lost Egnever Jan 2018 #7

See my post here (at least for the card): eppur_se_muova Jan 2018 #8

Hard drive electronics have failed, it's toast. Brainfodder Jan 2018 #10