A WD 500 GB My Book drive purchased in 2011 died. After some troubleshooting, found the 12V DC power brick malfunctioned. Multimeter measured 12.2V, but drive would not spin up. The drive was a 3.5 inch, SATA model. I found a Seagate External enclosure with the SATA-USB2 bridge board in my parts box along with a 12V DC power brick. Moved the drive over and everything now works. Files on the hard drive were intact!

That Seagate enclosure is not likely to be very robust.

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My life goes smoothly and in regular intervals

Not an issue - the drive is connected to my XBox 360 and holds games but not saves.

Good save. But interface boards can go bad and take attached equipment with them. So a suspect interface board is a risk even if not a high one.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/08/2019 07:40PM by pqrst.

I trashed the WD 12V power supply AND the WD bridge board.

I have a Seagate that may have this exact problem, I'll have to try this. Thks

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Hurts like a bastid...