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Available in various editions from essential, to premium to world edition. It is recommended you disconnect any other drives, to avoid confusion. Youll need a thin flathead screwdriver and a phillips star shaped screwdriver. Pop the cd, the usb drive, and the wd hard drive into the pc. I have a 2 tb wd my book live connected to this router and there are no issues at all. Disassembling a western digital my book instructables. In addition to simplifying the backup process for both windows and mac computers, this hard drive features 256bit aes hardware encryption to ensure stored files remain secure. How to fully disassemble a western digital mybook essential.
My wd 500gb my book essential died recently after a couple years. This is a dead no longer functioning western digital mybook. The wd external hard drive has a massive capacity and is able to hold up to 600,000 photos, 750,000 songs or 230 hours of hd video. There are many versions of the wd my book, and many revision of each version as well, so do your. I have a 3tb mybook essential it worked great for about 6 months was a backup for all my photos im a professional photographer. Our latest edition features visual, easytouse, automatic, continuous backup software and drive lock security protection. I recently needed to removed the drive from a western digital my book. If the case looks drastically different and you are nervous about damaging your hard drive, dont be. Western digital my book troubleshooting, repair, and service manuals. Do not disassemble the internal drive and attached assembly components. Cant seem to find anything on the net regarding this. So here you go, the steps required to disassemble a newstyle western digital my book drive.
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