Comments on: DIY how to rescue data from your Western Digital MyBook http://www.adcworks.com/2008/06/diy-how-to-rescue-data-from-your-western-digital-mybook/ Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.adcworks.com/2008/06/diy-how-to-rescue-data-from-your-western-digital-mybook/comment-page-1/#comment-197 admin Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:35:08 +0000 http://adcworks/?p=3#comment-197 Hi I hope the article helped you recover your data? If it wasn't the connector, then you could try SpinRite http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm for data recovery or failing that find a specialist. Don't worry, you can normally get data back, even if there is a cost associated with a specialist having to pull it off for you. adc. Hi

I hope the article helped you recover your data? If it wasn’t the connector, then you could try SpinRite http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm for data recovery or failing that find a specialist. Don’t worry, you can normally get data back, even if there is a cost associated with a specialist having to pull it off for you.

adc.

]]> By: Doug Pierson http://www.adcworks.com/2008/06/diy-how-to-rescue-data-from-your-western-digital-mybook/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Doug Pierson Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:07:01 +0000 http://adcworks/?p=3#comment-195 If this works for me I'll be in 7th heaven. I've been grieving the loss of 80 gigs of mp3s, 250 gigs of photos, all my web and project data, 100's of thousands of graphic elements, etc. all on one WD5000C032. I had a 2TB unit that never worked so I took it back and got four of the 500 Gig units. Three of them are formatted NTFS and have not had issues yet. The FAT formatted unit went belly up 2 days ago. I've kept it defragged with Diskeeper, watched partition health to no avail. It succumbs to the lowly connector. A weak link that should have been made strong for removable media. I'll build my own from now on. Thanks for this great resource. If this works for me I’ll be in 7th heaven. I’ve been grieving the loss of 80 gigs of mp3s, 250 gigs of photos, all my web and project data, 100′s of thousands of graphic elements, etc. all on one WD5000C032. I had a 2TB unit that never worked so I took it back and got four of the 500 Gig units. Three of them are formatted NTFS and have not had issues yet. The FAT formatted unit went belly up 2 days ago.

I’ve kept it defragged with Diskeeper, watched partition health to no avail. It succumbs to the lowly connector. A weak link that should have been made strong for removable media. I’ll build my own from now on.

Thanks for this great resource.

]]> By: NTXdiver http://www.adcworks.com/2008/06/diy-how-to-rescue-data-from-your-western-digital-mybook/comment-page-1/#comment-19 NTXdiver Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:26:32 +0000 http://adcworks/?p=3#comment-19 What a great article! I was researching the MyBook and came across it while reading the horror stories about lost data....nice to find out there 'may' be some way to recover. Thanks What a great article! I was researching the MyBook and came across it while reading the horror stories about lost data….nice to find out there ‘may’ be some way to recover. Thanks

]]> By: Smeapathmeets http://www.adcworks.com/2008/06/diy-how-to-rescue-data-from-your-western-digital-mybook/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Smeapathmeets Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:07:56 +0000 http://adcworks/?p=3#comment-18 Interesting and communicative, but would make something more on this topic? Interesting and communicative, but would make something more on this topic?

]]> By: Watto http://www.adcworks.com/2008/06/diy-how-to-rescue-data-from-your-western-digital-mybook/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Watto Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:04:07 +0000 http://adcworks/?p=3#comment-17 Yep...exactly the same shite as you! All 28 000 mp3's and years of photos went on this piece of crap. Hopefully you have shown me the way to get it all back...got to get the SATA cable first.... btw how the hell are Western Digital getting away with this? Spend my hard-earned on their product that simply does not work....astounded! It was because WD made the drive in the frst place I went and bought it....they have a great name so can't go wrong....what a sucker I was! Thanks Yep…exactly the same shite as you!
All 28 000 mp3′s and years of photos went on this piece of crap.
Hopefully you have shown me the way to get it all back…got to get the SATA cable first….

btw how the hell are Western Digital getting away with this?
Spend my hard-earned on their product that simply does not work….astounded!
It was because WD made the drive in the frst place I went and bought it….they have a great name so can’t go wrong….what a sucker I was!

Thanks

]]> By: coreduo http://www.adcworks.com/2008/06/diy-how-to-rescue-data-from-your-western-digital-mybook/comment-page-1/#comment-16 coreduo Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:44:15 +0000 http://adcworks/?p=3#comment-16 Hi ADCWORKS, this is a useful article. Just recently, my WD MyBook drive went dead. Everytime I connect it thru USB windows explorer always tells me that the hard disk is unformatted. I'm not sure if I somehow corrupted my data, but I'm going to try your stuff tomorrow. thanks.... Hi ADCWORKS, this is a useful article. Just recently, my WD MyBook drive went dead. Everytime I connect it thru USB windows explorer always tells me that the hard disk is unformatted. I’m not sure if I somehow corrupted my data, but I’m going to try your stuff tomorrow. thanks….

]]> By: admin http://www.adcworks.com/2008/06/diy-how-to-rescue-data-from-your-western-digital-mybook/comment-page-1/#comment-15 admin Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:04:28 +0000 http://adcworks/?p=3#comment-15 Yes you could just buy a new drive enclosure too, just make sure you get an enclosure with the connectors you want, e.g. SATA or IDE and right size, so 3.5" in this case. And get one with USB2 as that's going to be a faster transfer rate. The enclosures are real cheap. Yes you could just buy a new drive enclosure too, just make sure you get an enclosure with the connectors you want, e.g. SATA or IDE and right size, so 3.5″ in this case. And get one with USB2 as that’s going to be a faster transfer rate. The enclosures are real cheap.

]]> By: Anastasia Marie http://www.adcworks.com/2008/06/diy-how-to-rescue-data-from-your-western-digital-mybook/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Anastasia Marie Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:55:05 +0000 http://adcworks/?p=3#comment-14 HELLLOO! I was so happy to find your article on this topic. I too lost my mybook and the symptoms you describe are identical to what mine is doing (it is in the device manager but can't read or write to it despite the fact it says I can etc w/e) anyway I was wondering if there is another way to restore the data like fixing the USB thing. I have an IMac and I do not think I can crack it open and start plugging things into the motherboard. Any help would be greatly appreciated HELLLOO! I was so happy to find your article on this topic. I too lost my mybook and the symptoms you describe are identical to what mine is doing (it is in the device manager but can’t read or write to it despite the fact it says I can etc w/e) anyway I was wondering if there is another way to restore the data like fixing the USB thing. I have an IMac and I do not think I can crack it open and start plugging things into the motherboard. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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