It takes the 12V and through a switching power supply makes 5V for the drive and internal electronics. The first image is a view of the original I/F board on the right and the new style on the left. But, I'm not so sure of the quality they use in making the interface/power supply board. You may be able to rescue your data or you may lose it all. I'll leave it to the reader to search how to open the My Book drive and what comes next. Reading the data, well, that was another matter. The physical removal of the drive is easy. I decided to open the My Book and remove the drive and hot wire it to the USB port. Naturally, I worried that kind of torture would ultimately lead to a crash and take all my photo archives along with it. This would go on for nearly 5 minutes before the drive finally would mount to the computer. Upon connecting to the 12V power source, the drive would spin, head positioner would start moving and moving and moving with no mounting of the drive taking place. This is my second disaster involving a WD 'My Book'.įor a few months, it was taking the poor 4 year old 3TB WD My Book what seemed like an eternity to spin up and get connected with my computer.
members archive their camera images to either a Western Digital or Seagate outboard USB type drive.
