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Well, you can try and use the new port in the same way I just suggested, I suppose. Oh wait, you threw away the original connector? Oh boy. I'm also pretty sure (though not absolutely) that trying this and failing would not make matters in any worse than they are now, but I could be wrong. Obviously you want everything set up so that no pressure can or will be applied to the micro usb slot once it's all set up. If you can't get the contacts to line up well enough to pull this off then getting someone to solder it may be the only way to go, but I'd be willing to bet that aligning the pieces and establishing an electrical connection is easy enough that you could probably pull it off without too much work. I'd start off with REALLY light clamping pressure (with the clamp padded on both sides) and slowly build it up, but only to a VERY moderate level. All you need for it to do is to make and hold the electrical connection long enough for you to get the data off the drive.
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Sooooo, I'd install a known working usb cable into the connector, line up the connector with its proper spot on the board, and use a small clamp to hold the connector in its proper place on the board. As near as I can tell, though, the four connections at the back of the square where the connector used to be soldered are supposed to attach to the back of the connector that broke off. but then again it may not work at all.įrom your pictures I can't tell how the electrical connection is made between the mini usb port and the board, so I looked at a board I have sitting here on my desk which didn't help much. Here's an idea that might work for your purposes. Now I have to spend all this money just to rescue my data. I don't know what was the point of automatically encrypting the HDD. It's stupid and I'm angry at western digital for making this crappy design decision. You can't even recover any data using recovery programs because it's all encrypted. If you don't use the control board and plug the HDD straight to your computer using a sata cable or another usb hard drive enclosure, your hard drive just shows up on your computer as one big partition that says unallocated space. The HDD has an encryption key pre installed on it and the control board decrypts the key so you can view your data on your computer when the control board is plugged in your computer with the HDD plugged in the control board. This means unless you have the control board it came with(which is in the picture) or another control board of the same model your data won't show up on your pc. Western Digital released several external hard drive models that are "hardware encrypted". The micro usb socket is the tiny metal thing that is off the motherboard, right next the socket that it's supposed to me on.Īnd the HDD automatically has encryption on it.
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I just need a solution that will last for at least two days.Ĭlick to expand.I told you in my post the Micro usb socket fell off. I'm now thinking about using a hot glue gun to glue the socket on but I'm not sure that will work.
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I have no soldering skills at all and tape didn't work. But I can't figure out a easy way to keep it on the CB. So I ordered a new micro usb socket part to try to recover my data since I accidentally threw the one that fell off in the trash. This means that the HDD always needs to be connected to the control board that it came with or another similar control board to decrypt and access the Data on the HDD. But sadly when i connected it to my computer I found that the whole drive said it had "unallocated" data and needed to be formatted to be used.Īfter further research I discovered that Western Digital has hardware encryption on a lot of their external hard drives. I opened up the enclosure and pulled the internal hard drive out so I could connect the HDD to straight to my computer and hopefully recover my data. So a few days ago the micro usb socket from the WD My book external enclosure case randomly fell off.
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*Wasn't sure if this should go in the hard drive section or motherboard section*