How to Open a Western Digital MyBook USB Drive.

Step 7 4 more screws

Remove the last 4 screws on the side of the actual hard drive.

Just replace with your sata drive and reverse the steps.

Comments

[lump27]

Thanks man, I got this same type of case on my failed My Book, no screws anywhere on the outside. Still under warranty so I should get a replacement, i put it back together very carefully and looks same as it was before opening. I managed to rescue some irreplaceable photos by freezing the hard drive, then I connected it to my PC with a USB/IDE/Serial ATA adapter. Freezing it gave me like 10 minutes at a time to work with it each time I froze it so i had to freeze it about 5 times (24 hrs at a time or overnight) and rescue some data, happy to say I got all my irreplaceable stuff back... Thanks again ;)

[Syring]

 Our IT guys did this same thing to recover a ppt psoter I had spent DAYS on.  Awesome little trick to have in the repertoire!  They were sure to put it in an anti static bag as well just to be safe.
They had about 10min as well.  They explained it as being a "warping" issue with some parts (maybe the actuator?) and the freezing allowed things to reform, but then warp again when it heats up after 10min.

[alexg69]

do you mean literally freeze it? or is it some thing else

[sleepydog]

Yeah, he means he put it in his freezer to lower the temperature to make the hard drive work just long enough to get his data off. This is an old but useful trick for data recovery.

[rama2000]

Thanks a lot for your help

[spoonyfork]

Awesome, thanks.

[farrers]

Thanks mate! You're a genius! I knew there was a way to do this, but couldn't figure it out. Thanks for posting this! :)