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Cracking open a Western Digital MyBook External Hard drive

Tags: open, digital, western, external, drive
My friend has a dead western digital MyBook (Essential edition 250 gb) that contains important data.

However it seems the HD may be still be good and the only reason it doesn't turn on is because the power supply is damaged.

To get the data back, I was planning on see if I can pry open the case and mount the HD as a secondary HD on my main computer. Does anybody have any tips or suggestion on how I should approach the problem?
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Zone: Storage
Question Asked By: Kunio7
Solution Provided By: Mr-Madcowz
Participating Experts: 4
Solution Grade: A
Views: 589
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