How to disassemble a Western Digital My Passport external Hard drive easily

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  • Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025

Комментарии • 58

  • @davidinark
    @davidinark Год назад +3

    Welp… My usb connector on the drive is loose and was hoping to disassemble and pop the drive into another shell. So much for that. Thanks for showing us that the doofs at wd went non-standard and you saved so many of us from wasted effort. You’re doing great work here, keep it up!!

  • @Alaa-is7wj
    @Alaa-is7wj 4 года назад +10

    I was so cloooose to disassemble my drive to use in my new PC. I just needed to make sure how to do it. thanks for saving me from a stupid decision bro

  • @CaturdayNite
    @CaturdayNite 4 года назад +4

    Same as one of the comments below, I almost took mine apart to get some quick storage added on to a desktop system I have. This saved me from an $80 mistake.

    • @rickytlc1985
      @rickytlc1985  4 года назад

      Lol yeh until you know you know -they use their own designed drives and interface.

  • @hivaidz3250
    @hivaidz3250 6 лет назад +4

    That accent has me replaying the video over and over.
    Love it good video man keep up the work

  • @sbrazenor2
    @sbrazenor2 6 лет назад +2

    I was thinking about grabbing 6 of their 4TB drives, which are like $80 now for my SAS/SATA RAID array in my server, and then I saw this. Thanks for saving me $500+ (with tax)!
    I have one of the 4TB drives already as a scratch disk for torrents. It works well enough for that, but it would be better in RAID 10 as an archival option. The SATA equivalent is like $102 each, and I don't even want to try to find a high speed SAS variant, because those are likely still $1000 each. (SAS drives are stupid expensive new.)

  • @smrjt9102
    @smrjt9102 4 года назад +1

    Thanks brother. Loved it. Much love from India.

  • @CompTechMike
    @CompTechMike 2 года назад

    Thanks! Was hard to find that groove until I saw you do it, LOL.

    • @rickytlc1985
      @rickytlc1985  2 года назад +1

      Yeh always tricky, it may even seem like there was not one.

  • @jetrixjose8450
    @jetrixjose8450 4 года назад +2

    Is it possible if i can transfer it to another enclosure?

  • @j.lietka9406
    @j.lietka9406 11 месяцев назад

    Did you try to replace the old HDD with an SSD? Thank you 🤓

  • @jayverene1986
    @jayverene1986 5 лет назад +4

    Are you Jamaican? Nuff respect from a fellow I T engineer of Jamaican decent in England, and thank you for the video really helped. 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

  • @thisismyinferno
    @thisismyinferno 5 лет назад

    Is there an enclosure made for WD drives?

  • @VyllenceGaming
    @VyllenceGaming 7 лет назад

    wow a jamaican tech blogger - subbed

  • @lukepriefer7444
    @lukepriefer7444 4 года назад +1

    im having problems powering the drive and I have already replaced the replaced the cable with a new one so iknow its not the cable plz help

  • @seylig
    @seylig 5 лет назад

    U can change his mother board for put it in a laptop. It works ?

    • @rickytlc1985
      @rickytlc1985  5 лет назад

      No diffrent connection

    • @seylig
      @seylig 5 лет назад

      U can change a mother board with sata connector ! I want to try it

  • @ulungrinjanidharma8609
    @ulungrinjanidharma8609 4 года назад

    So inside it is 3.5 12mm sata drive?

    • @rickytlc1985
      @rickytlc1985  4 года назад

      Yes but its not like the normal ones. It uses a special connector that's not standard.

  • @Roskiyeta
    @Roskiyeta 5 лет назад +1

    Is there any way to use it on a desktop computer without connecting via USB?
    very good video!

    • @rickytlc1985
      @rickytlc1985  5 лет назад +3

      No that's the only .If it was a regular Hard drive you could be seeing its specially made for these enclosures you are out of luck.

    • @Roskiyeta
      @Roskiyeta 5 лет назад

      @@rickytlc1985 ok, Thank you for your answer!)

  • @janinecat1865
    @janinecat1865 3 года назад +1

    Good guide. Still trying to pry the lid off. Wish me luck.

    • @HumbertoHacked
      @HumbertoHacked Год назад

      Did you pry the lid off finally?

    • @janinecat1865
      @janinecat1865 Год назад

      @@HumbertoHacked nope, found the data elsewhere.

    • @robertwilliams1669
      @robertwilliams1669 Год назад

      @@janinecat1865 So, how were you able to access the data? I have 2 of these that have imprisoned my data. Is there a micro usb to sata adapter?

  • @ZidfluxDataRecoveryServices
    @ZidfluxDataRecoveryServices 5 месяцев назад

    I have 1TB my passport and all my files ( games, operating systems, drivers and movies are inside which I can't access it due to the fatal hardware error that is showing.
    How to resolve it?

  • @2iBMX
    @2iBMX 5 лет назад +1

    Thank you so much, very helpful!

    • @rickytlc1985
      @rickytlc1985  5 лет назад

      Glad to know you found this useful.

  • @Melki
    @Melki Год назад

    Thank you 😊

  • @PsilocybinMagic
    @PsilocybinMagic 3 года назад

    Thanks dude!

  • @ericschult3659
    @ericschult3659 2 года назад +1

    Thank you.

  • @zenvirtravolta
    @zenvirtravolta 7 лет назад

    Can you guide me how to recover the password?? Or how to disabled??

  • @HumbertoHacked
    @HumbertoHacked Год назад

    Speaking as someone that works with hard drives I don't recommend these drives because they're not able to be set up in a PC/PS3/4

  • @Josueee7
    @Josueee7 7 лет назад

    Gracias me funciono!

  • @DeeDee-lz8zx
    @DeeDee-lz8zx 10 месяцев назад

    disappointed wth those round connectors that I cant unscrew and now need to send my hard drive out to a repair company

  • @DonRobertson82
    @DonRobertson82 9 месяцев назад

    ONLY BUY SEGATE - YOU CAN USE THEIR EXTERNAL USB DRIVES AS INTERNAL - NEVER BUY WD FOR THIS REASON.

  • @MehmetSahTellek
    @MehmetSahTellek Год назад

    Siyahi baba adamsın.

  • @doug6717
    @doug6717 6 лет назад +1

    that look like it maybe e-sata connector on the drive. Can anybody confirm?

    • @ryan8374
      @ryan8374 6 лет назад

      It's a micro-USB 3.0 connector.

    • @onibon1990
      @onibon1990 5 лет назад +1

      @@ryan8374 I think he meant the actual hard drive to the connector inside

  • @mk553
    @mk553 6 лет назад +1

    Gee, thanks for telling us that the drive won't work inside a regular PC until the very end of the video.

  • @linuxxxunil
    @linuxxxunil 2 года назад +1

    what a piece of junk hard drive. buddy asked me to look at his drive because windows not seeing it. i thought, ok i will just take the drive out and hook it up to an adapter. NOPE. I will never buy one of these.

    • @rickytlc1985
      @rickytlc1985  2 года назад

      Yeh quite a surprise on the connector.

  • @rims6868
    @rims6868 7 лет назад

    Incomplete

  • @aaronz7267
    @aaronz7267 7 лет назад +2

    then u just replace with a junk drive and return to the store LoL

    • @Noel127
      @Noel127 5 лет назад

      @@NWOization the world is