umam95•5mo ago

My WD drive kicked the bucket mid-route last Tuesday

I was rolling through Nebraska when my external drive just started clicking and I lost 3 days of work logs. Turns out the USB port on my laptop had a bent pin that shorted something out in the enclosure. Anybody know a reliable way to recover data from a dead 2TB drive without paying a fortune?

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ericb665mo ago

Bent pin shorting the enclosure" - that's a new one on me. Did you try swapping the drive into a different enclosure first, or did you open it up?

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the_elizabeth5mo ago

Straight to a new enclosure first. Opening it up is a last resort move.

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fiona_lane5mo ago

Honestly, what kind of bent pin are we talking? Like at the connector or on the board?

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