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Turning My Western Digital My Book Into an Internal Drive without losing the Dat

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MarkD1975   02-06-2012 at 10:15:06 PM

Hello,
I have a western digital my book that went kaput on me and will no longer connect via usb. So I took it apart and inserted it into my computer as an internal hard drive. And that's where my knowledge ends. I'm lost what to do next. I'm trying to hopefully not lose the data on the drive.

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andrewcarr   02-06-2012 at 11:07:53 PM

You have to connect the hard drive to your motherboard by an SATA cable and plug your power supply SATA power cable into the hard drive. It should show up on windows, it should still have the same information.

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MarkD1975   02-06-2012 at 11:35:46 PM

I did plug it all in, but for some reason its not showing up. :cry:

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andrewcarr   02-07-2012 at 12:09:23 AM

Can you tell if the drive is spinning up or not?

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MarkD1975   02-07-2012 at 01:33:44 AM

andrewcarr wrote :

Can you tell if the drive is spinning up or not?


The computer is recognizing it, when I start the computer up, it shows it connected to the third sata port, but it says there's a 5th master drive error. I was thinking I might need drivers to make it work with my pc since it was an external hard drive before.

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andrewcarr   02-07-2012 at 01:38:33 AM

Not sure. You may have to format it.

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