As stated, I'm working with a 1 TB external HDD (G-Drive, serial # cc2mnppk) that has the female connector broken off the board and fell inside the casing.
I bought the drive at Apple and have since been back to the store. They said they would replace it, but they couldn't rescue my data. I have to do that.
So, I cracked it open. There was a small board that received USB input. This board has pins that connect to a standard SATA connector and the same (5 volt?) connector that I currently have plugged into a SSD on my other machine. So I did the logical thing and plugged this drive into my computer using a second SATA connector and an available (5 volt?) supply cable from my PSU.
Now the issue: The drive does not appear in My Computer, but DOES appear in computer management (where one would normally assign a letter to the drive) and in the device manager. However, there doesn't seem to be any way to assign a letter without formatting the drive.
Can I access the data on this drive?
I bought the drive at Apple and have since been back to the store. They said they would replace it, but they couldn't rescue my data. I have to do that.
So, I cracked it open. There was a small board that received USB input. This board has pins that connect to a standard SATA connector and the same (5 volt?) connector that I currently have plugged into a SSD on my other machine. So I did the logical thing and plugged this drive into my computer using a second SATA connector and an available (5 volt?) supply cable from my PSU.
Now the issue: The drive does not appear in My Computer, but DOES appear in computer management (where one would normally assign a letter to the drive) and in the device manager. However, there doesn't seem to be any way to assign a letter without formatting the drive.
Can I access the data on this drive?
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