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**linderman** · 01-06-2008, 02:42 PM

I would try installing the drive into a USB external enclosure / boot into windows first then connect the drive once windows is UP?

if you buy the external enclosure from a box store / you can return the enclosure if it doesnt work for you ?

if you know a reasonable PC shop, some of them will do this for you ??

but i would agree with Eneles, I think you PCB is defective

I will try to find one, you may have to buy a used but working drive off ebay, then remove the PCB from the good drive and put it on the bad drive, that is what I have been stuck doing most of the time in your situtation

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linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,437 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Trying to recover files from WD HDD I would try installing the drive into a USB external enclosure / boot into windows first then connect the drive once windows is UP? if you buy the external enclosure from a box store / you can return the enclosure if it doesnt work for you ? if you know a reasonable PC shop, some of them will do this for you ?? but i would agree with Eneles, I think you PCB is defective I will try to find one, you may have to buy a used but working drive off ebay, then remove the PCB from the good drive and put it on the bad drive, that is what I have been stuck doing most of the time in your situtation __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial Last edited by linderman; 01-06-2008 at 02:58 PM.