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Andy Cuffe
 
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Default WD External hard disk failure...

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:03:24 GMT, James Sweet
wrote:


Remove the drive from the case and connect it directly to a PC via the
normal IDE interface and see if it works. If you're lucky, you may have
only had the USB adapter get cooked. If the drive is still dead, look
around the circuit board for a diode near the power connector, I've
fixed a couple drives that got plugged in wrong by replacing that.


This is one case that might be fixed by swapping the board from
another identical drive.
Andy Cuffe

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