Second video please God bless you for this repair I will pay you I have a my book 3tb external hard drive obviously I took it out with the 3.5 inch disc and the PCB attached to that has malfunctions of course . THE DISK has memories of my brother that has passed away four years ago and very important to my family thank you

These HD Passport Drives are the worst external drives I have ever bought, will NEVER buy another one.

How unfortunate they're soldering that usb3 port to the hdd. I was hoping to crack it open and toss it in a laptop. FAIL lol. Thank you for video. Saved me pullin the rubber pads looking for non-existent screws.

Thanks, this was hepfull and timesaving.

Had a question what are the other two type of connections on each side of the port you fixed?

Could you please put a link to the second part? I can't find it in your channel.

When can we see part two please?

can you show us the next video of how you will recover the data after that?

finally I get it fixed by changing the cable!!!!!! holy moly. I almost lost tons of memories inside my HDD. another cable from an identical wd brand would be the hero!! please try guys

That was a hell of a long ways to go for a whole Lotta nothing.

Hi, I was wondering how much you would charge for a fix like this? MY drive has a similar issue I think, wher it begins to blink when I press down the cable, my local shop was going to charge 350€. I don't think I'm willing to pay for that. If that would seem reasonable to you , maybe I'lll have to accept the fact that all my stuff is lost.

Where is the 2nd Video, Part 2?

It is called a cold solder joint when the soldering iron did not heat the solder to a high enough temperature.

Thank you, Gru!

Do they make a cable for those 12 gold pins to remove my files?

My Essential is new and working fine but I noticed a strange noise inside when I shake it. When I opened the upper case I noticed it comes from little plastic "bulb" for LED light (can bee seen in your vid) which is loose. It seams its not screwed but attached to the board with pins. Should I worry about this since I cannot return the disk to the store and say "Hey I opened the disk and saw the little plastic is loose"?

If i get a working donor and swap the board are any drivers needed or would it work straight away?

Could you add a link to your business website to the description possibly? I have no where to go that I know of, and need a rom chip moved from a hard drive connector board to a replacement connector board, so I can access all my family videos that are lost hopefully not forever! Im in the USA

This guy: "If you do not know what kind of tools I am using, don't touch the inside of this thing, please just send it to someone who knows what they are doing," Me just seconds before: "What kind of screwdriver is that?" *sitting on the floor at 2 am trying to fix my dad's external hard drive I just dropped and opened with a driver's license*

Hey! Where ls the part 2? Thank you!

Can you tell me if I can change the card you have removed and replace it with an standard one? Thanks

I like to see it fixed

Hey, how do you know what drive can have their PCb board replaced?

Next video? Where can I find part 2

What are the copper pins that a located beside the usb port? is that where i can hook up to retrieve the data?

Parden me coz i am a noob, but thats the reason why i am asking this question. I have heard that we need a torsion screwdriver for hard drive platter to screw it back or else any extra or less twist on the screw might cause the hard drive to not respond. Is the case same for the controller board.

find your video very interesting, I have a hard drive of the same brand and it has not worked for me since yesterday, I thought it could be for something internal and my question is what type of screwdriver and if possible, tell me where you bought it from?

So you can't use this drive in a laptop as a SATA it appears

Hey speaker, where is second video?

I have one of these that now spins up (no clicking or beeping) and is recognised as a drive, but never reads. So it looks like one of data lines is broken, but the power lines are OK? Seems like very flimsy construction :/

I have almost the same identical hard drive. When i plug it in, the computer recognizes that a hard drive has been plugged in but i don't have anywhere to access the drive. In disk management, i try to initiate it and it wont let me. What if one bought a duplicate brand new drive and just switched the new board onto the old drive?

i have a very similar problem, do you think i can just use an adapter to bypass the usb?

ty for the info

I have the usb broken from the board. is there a way to fix it. or is the a way to buy another connector and fix unto the other pins

My same HDD is fine. It detects on PC but doesn't know why it does not show. My friend once connect a connector of this external hard drive to it and worked perfectly without making any sound of buzz or clicking !! What could be the solution to it. And what connector to use to connect to the pc. Please guide/help.

Where is Part 2?

Do you fix external drives? I dropped mine and I can’t get it to open any data

i have am old retro ibm travelstar from an old retro ibm thinkpad with windows 98, but, i accidentally put a torx screw on the sircuit board and it died, it has somewhere a short, but i do not know where, can i replace the circuit board with an other simillar one?

i do have a question. Can you not purchase a new board for the Hard drive and recover the data? i was thinking if i had 2 identical drives, 1 working and 1 not, you could change out boards or platters to recover any data on the one not working. just wondering?

Just because you don't see damage from not using ESD protection, doesn't mean you don't cause latent damage that can fail later. I recommend always using ESD protection when handling a customer's product. The difference I have seen between Western Digital and Seagate is Seagate has an USB to SATA adapter. My drive was fine but the adapter was bad. I plugged it it to SATA and it read fine.

I really just stopped by to get an idea of how to get into my old school passport (which is actually quite older that this model) works fine, but needs more capacity. Been trolling "best buy people" for 20 years.

What is your business so I can send you my harddrive to repair?

Thank you for an overview of this. My physical connector is weak. I have to hold the cable to get the power connection to work. Its probably loose after years of wear on it. I was kinda hoping there would be a spare SATA connection on this board I could use as a 1 off transfer to get data off of it.

Where is part 2 of this video?

Hi.i dropped my 2TB WD External.it was partitioned but when I connect it only one drive appears.would formatting it make it work?all 2TB I mean.

mine both hdd opening wont. both inside xp have. recent 4 year since open cant im.

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what type of harddisk is this?

Can you recover the data from a portable drive that when plugged in the computer doesn’t recognize it

How to use it as an internal hard drive???

what screwdrivers do I need to open it ?

Where's the Part 2?

What is the port between the Micro USB and LED? Does it help recover data if I lose Micro USB, if so how?

How to fix hard drive with just local disk D showing on my computer? And if i double or right click it, it does not respond but instead it makes the windows tab not responding.

the proprietory port in my hard drive is broken i want to extract data

Thanks

thanks

Can i bring my drive to you to fix for me? if yes where can i find you? i am in Ghana

Was part 2 for this ever made?

if the problem in the ports, and since WD fuse ports to Boards, is it possible to use other boeard from fine hard drive?

I have similar problem witht my WD external hard drive, the connector broke off andthe actual connections were disconnected. Is it posible to hardwire the connections in order to be able to use the hard drive?

where is the second part? cant find

I have one of these that does not show up or light up wgen hooked up to pc how. Can i get a replacement board for it if not what can i do to get access to my files ?

Hi Abraham, so I've got an external WD Passport (WDBY8L0020BBK-01) 2 TB kind of the same drive and it makes an single beep noise when I connect it about every 6th second, it does not show on the computer and the light is flashing. It happend after a minor drop. After your DIY Video 2 with beeping noise it seems like the head is stuck, no cracking noises. I live in a part of the world where both competence and service sucks and it's expensive. Is there possible for an amateur like me too release the head safely in a drive like this. There are a whole life of data in pics and video on it. Extremly valuble to me. I actually would like to send it too you for recovery.Thanks for helpful videos👍 -Dan-

so many fails here and no part two?

I have 2 seagate hd 250GB and 320GB, both of them are used but the 320GB hard drive is not working and the problem is with the circuit, I swap it and now is working but is showing me, in disk management that is not allocated or initialized. Can I just initialized without losing any data?

You didn't have a part two of this video so I'm assuming you haven't fixed this problem.

If it won’t work, is it possible to recover the data somehow? Thank you

What do you charge for fixing a broken connector to the passport. I am a teacher and my passport has information that I need.

What happened to PART 2 BRO?

Hi Abraham, I've an external WD Passport Ultra similar to the one in your video. I have had it for easily 7+ years without any problems. It dropped the other day. I conneted it immediately to my PC and it loaded the files. Now after some days its just not loading the files, the light is flashing though. It throws the message that the drive needs to be formatted but that process will erase all my data. I have all of my 20 years of professional and personal data on it. I live in a small town in Mississippi and not sure where to send it for data recovery. I would like to send it to you OR any service center you can advise me. I appreciate your help with this. Thanks, Tripty

I have WD passport ultra witch PC can not see some times. When I can open a file there is no data. Do you think this can be fixed.I have had someone look at it but it did not show up on his PC. Thank you Hugh

So the passport has no way to fix otherwise .. bcuz it doesn’t have a sata bridge correct

I also have mine (HDD WD Elements), its port has got out I try to push in but now it cant work. Please can you assist me?

AND NEED TO BUY NEW ONE

Hi Sir I have an external hard drive "Samsung M3 2 TB USB 3.0/2.0 external hard drive 2.5". It fell off and hasn't worked since. If I connect it to the computer it is detected but I cannot see the data inside. Is there any way to recover data? Many Thanks

can u show while released & install main controller ic ?

can i use a library card instead of credit card?

What size is the swrew driver

so one of my ports were damaged when it was dropped, when you showed yours in the video it is the bottom left one. I have no clue on how to fix it so uh yeaaaa...

if I want to make it internal what should I do?

How can I send my unit to you for repair? Passport Ultra not registering to computer. Has lots of files and data.

Dude! You have your credit card, name, expiration date and CVV number on your card exposed lol.

first off i have no idea what im doing ok so my question is, see when you take the mother board off the wd hard drive is that the actually hard drive fully intact and will the ps4 500gb hard drive work with the wd passport mother board ? i want to use the 2tb wd hard drive on my ps4 and put the 500gb hard drive from the ps4 in to the wd cover will this work ?

I hate to say this but man that credit card can be read through the number recesses and the CCV is right there...... Not sure the purpose of it in the video but might want to pull it down....

hi, i am seeing this video as my 1 tb external is showing data structure corrupted and unreadable when connected to desktop today. few days back it was working fine. my query is can we converst such external into sata ?

Hard disk making sound what the problem n data not reading

Can't I just swap the metal memory disc drive onto a brand new ext drive of same make and model? Remove the brand new metal disc and install my old one in it's place, now I have a brand new disc drive with my older memory disc. Can't that work?

Hi, I have a WD My Passport Ultra 2TB which is not functioning anymore. Very very rarely it mounts on my Mac, however very unstable. I can see that all files are there, but when I try to copy files from it, the process freezes. In cases it doesn't mount, the sound when it is connected sounds quite normal, but after a while I hear a klick and it stops rotating. What can this be? I would like to try to replace the controller board. Can this possibly work? Can I buy a 1TB Version of this drive and detach the board or does it have a different board?

my wd passport hard drive is connect but i send file is slow how to fix

without taking part off-as too hard for myself-im disabled-arms not workable--how do i get right enclosure just to put in?as looked everywhere-and my other enclosures wont fit it as they are level-but this has the connecter part stuck out,,anyone help plx

So how do I recover the data?

hii.. I have a WD Element 2TB hard disk with me, it is not working after it fall down from my hand. I didn't opened the hard disk yet. I checked the board but didn't found any physical damage to the board. How can I recover the data from my drive...??

hello , thank you for the video . can you advise if there is a way yo connect my WD passport to the mother board directly ? appreciate your reply .

I was wondering what form factor is this drive? most 2.5" are thin compared to this drive. what would one look for to find this type of drive is there a name for it? Thanks in advance.

3 WD passports failed ....😢 to get the data from one of them ... between 500 - 1200 US dollars...who can afford that.....

Hello Dear, I have an HDD model WD3200BPVT- 320 GB and since last week is not working properly  As soon I torn my laptop on it making one time clicking one time noise. When I using as external USB to my laptop it is asking for initialise Disk, when I want to initialise this message is appearing: Virtual Disk Manager Data error (Cyclic redundancy check). I tried all most all data recovery software for partition recovery and files recovery but not detecting after 10 hour scan Please let me know what the problem is and what is the solution Regards Fayad Kateb

I have same looking hard disk !! But I am unable to access the data in it. It detects, shows also but bar ( how much data in there) does not show. There is no clicking or any similar sound

Where is part 2???

I have the same problem with WD elements portable 4TB. Please give me the information of the second part. I can't to find it. Thanks.