Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up

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From: darklight
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:25

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muzician21 wrote:

> I've got this WD 500 gb Firewire  external My Book drive I've been
> using to store mostly video files for a big video project. It doesn't
> have an on/off switch, it powers up when power is first applied, goes
> dormant after a period of inactivity and restarts when you try to
> access it. It's worked flawlessly until today.
> 
> Normally the blue light in front dances up and down during boot up as
> well as whenever there's data transfer but now I notice the light
> flashes briefly when power is first applied, the drive makes some
> noise like it's starting to spool up but then shuts down. The couple
> of h/d's I've had die in the past gave me some warning, made weird
> clicking noises for a while before crapping out. This one was working
> perfectly normally until now. I wouldn't think overheating would be an
> issue with this drive, the case is extensively vented unlike most
> external drives I've seen. It doesn't get used that much.
> 
> Anyone have experience with these drives? Any chance there's a power
> supply inside the case that's causing the problem and can be swapped
> with another from an identical drive? Would be a huge
> Aaaaargggghhhhh!!!!!! to lose the hundreds of gigs of files. Any
> chance WD would do such a repair?  I don't want another drive, I need
> THIS drive to work.
> 
> Thanks for all assistance.

can you take the hard drive out of the case and hook it up internally ?

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