Hello, I've got an external hard drive that's a western digital, that i've had for about two or three years now. It's a decent sized hard drive, about two terabytes and has a lot of my personal data on it. Recently, I had to get a european adapter for it, because it didn't have the right wall plug for the ac adapter. Now, stupid me didn't check the voltage, and low and behold there was about a second of power and the thing made a zip noise, and it just quit working. Now, I did crack open the hard drive and take a look at the PCB and the board with the power and USB input. The board with the power and usb has a U2 integrated circuit on it that looks like it is damaged. Other than that, the rest of the hard drive looks fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
Western Digital External Hard Drive Short WD20EADS-11R6B1
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Hey there, Artemus19.
It sounds like a really unfortunate accident.
So I assume your priority is data recovery? If this is the case and the PCB is fried, then you have only 2 options available.
The first one is a PCB swap, which is not really recommended and it always voids the warranty of the drive, but this has been done when you took it out of its original enclosure (if it was still under warranty). Anyway, if you decide to go with that, you'll need the PCB from the exact same drive model. Note that even if you find the exact same PCB, it's still not guaranteed that it would work so please do that at your own discretion.
The other option (which is recommended), is to go for a professional solution, such as a data recovery...
It sounds like a really unfortunate accident.
So I assume your priority is data recovery? If this is the case and the PCB is fried, then you have only 2 options available.
The first one is a PCB swap, which is not really recommended and it always voids the warranty of the drive, but this has been done when you took it out of its original enclosure (if it was still under warranty). Anyway, if you decide to go with that, you'll need the PCB from the exact same drive model. Note that even if you find the exact same PCB, it's still not guaranteed that it would work so please do that at your own discretion.
The other option (which is recommended), is to go for a professional solution, such as a data recovery...
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Hey there, Artemus19.
It sounds like a really unfortunate accident.
So I assume your priority is data recovery? If this is the case and the PCB is fried, then you have only 2 options available.
The first one is a PCB swap, which is not really recommended and it always voids the warranty of the drive, but this has been done when you took it out of its original enclosure (if it was still under warranty). Anyway, if you decide to go with that, you'll need the PCB from the exact same drive model. Note that even if you find the exact same PCB, it's still not guaranteed that it would work so please do that at your own discretion.
The other option (which is recommended), is to go for a professional solution, such as a data recovery company. You can check out this link: WD Data Recovery Partners.
Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
It sounds like a really unfortunate accident.
So I assume your priority is data recovery? If this is the case and the PCB is fried, then you have only 2 options available.
The first one is a PCB swap, which is not really recommended and it always voids the warranty of the drive, but this has been done when you took it out of its original enclosure (if it was still under warranty). Anyway, if you decide to go with that, you'll need the PCB from the exact same drive model. Note that even if you find the exact same PCB, it's still not guaranteed that it would work so please do that at your own discretion.
The other option (which is recommended), is to go for a professional solution, such as a data recovery company. You can check out this link: WD Data Recovery Partners.
Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
Boogieman_WD :
Hey there, Artemus19.
It sounds like a really unfortunate accident.
So I assume your priority is data recovery? If this is the case and the PCB is fried, then you have only 2 options available.
The first one is a PCB swap, which is not really recommended and it always voids the warranty of the drive, but this has been done when you took it out of its original enclosure (if it was still under warranty). Anyway, if you decide to go with that, you'll need the PCB from the exact same drive model. Note that even if you find the exact same PCB, it's still not guaranteed that it would work so please do that at your own discretion.
The other option (which is recommended), is to go for a professional solution, such as a data recovery company. You can check out this link: WD Data Recovery Partners.
Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
It sounds like a really unfortunate accident.
So I assume your priority is data recovery? If this is the case and the PCB is fried, then you have only 2 options available.
The first one is a PCB swap, which is not really recommended and it always voids the warranty of the drive, but this has been done when you took it out of its original enclosure (if it was still under warranty). Anyway, if you decide to go with that, you'll need the PCB from the exact same drive model. Note that even if you find the exact same PCB, it's still not guaranteed that it would work so please do that at your own discretion.
The other option (which is recommended), is to go for a professional solution, such as a data recovery company. You can check out this link: WD Data Recovery Partners.
Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
Thanks for the advice, I did find a transfer cable setup to use and got all of my stuff back! Thanks
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