Hi everyone, my WD external hard drive encasing has been broken for over 2 years and i just bought a new encasing but it won't

sonam thsering

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Hi everyone, my WD external hard drive won't be recognize in my laptop. Though laptop indicates that a usb device has been connected but is doesn't show up in it. Does anyone have any advice?
 

moulderhere

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What did you buy?

So you took the WD hard drive out of the old case and put into a replacement one?

What WD hard drive is it? Serial number?

I inquire this because if it is just a SATA or IDE drive you can put it into a desktop, use hirens boot cd to do data recovery.