Solve : 2TB HDD not recognised on sata docking station?

1.	Solve : 2TB HDD not recognised on sata docking station?
Answer» I've GOT a 2TB Western Digital WD20EADS HDD. The USB connector snapped off so it LONGER worked with the USB cable. I then tried connecting it with my sata docking station. The drive was recognised in the 'safely remove Hardware and Eject media' icon (bottom right of screen, but when I tried to access the files through windows explorer the drive was not visible. I opened Disk management which asked me to assign the drive, which I did but it was then asking me to format it but I obviously don't want to do this ! Can you help me recover the data from this HDD. Thanks DavidThe drive you mentioned has no USB connector.I think you'll find that it does. I may not be the brightest computer guy in the world but I can certainly tell what a USB connector is. I'm not sure where you're getting your information from but it's not accurate.! Quote from: dgreen on November 10, 2012, 05:17:30 PM I may not be the brightest computer guy in the world but I can certainly tell what a USB connector is. Whereabouts on the drive is the USB connector? Can you see it in this picture, which shows a Western Digital WD Green WD20EADS 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive? $Can you see the USB connector... I must be hallucinating ! [year+ old attachment deleted by admin] Quote from: dgreen on November 11, 2012, 01:44:12 AM Can you see the USB connector... I must be hallucinating ! You said in your first post... Quote from: dgreen I've got a 2TB Western Digital WD20EADS HDD. ... which is an internal bare drive (I even showed a picture of it) and Computer Commando was entirely accurate to say it has no USB connector. It is an internal SATA drive. The picture you have now posted clearly shows the makers LABEL of a Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDBAAF0020HBK-00. You can see the part number on the label! This is a Western Digital external drive, which is an ordinary bare drive in a case, with a USB interface. If you want to get help it is best to give proper, full information, otherwise people will get impatient. If you have subjected the drive to enough force to actually break off the USB connector, you have almost certainly damaged the whole interface section of the external drive enclosure's circuit board. Your best bet now is to open the case and extract the drive, after which you can make some other arrangement to connect the drive, such as getting an empty USB enclosure and mounting the drive in that, assuming it is not also busted. If the full story is that you already got the drive out of the case and you had quoted the part number of that drive, then it is possible that whatever accident broke off the external case's USB connector, also did some damage to the drive, especially if it was connected to a powered-on computer or to a power supply. If the drive has had rough treatment, you may be looking at a busted drive here. I suspect he extracted the drive from the case & failed to mention that relevant fact.Listen, I don't think the patronising tone is necessary. I thought it was perfectly obvious that I had extracted the drive seeing as though I stated that I had connected it to my data dicking station. I actually thought you guys could have PUT two and two together and not come up with five! For your information the drive was not damaged but only the USB adapter. I thought that even if a drive has been formatted accidentally its data can be recovered via some specialist software! Are you able to help me out t all? Quote from: dgreen on November 11, 2012, 01:34:13 PM I had connected it to my data dicking station. I am quite sure that you did. Start here https://www.google.com/search?q=formatted+drive+recover+data Quote from: dgreen on November 11, 2012, 01:34:13 PM I actually thought you guys could have put two and two together and not come up with five! We are all volunteers here; we know a bit, sometimes, about computer problem solving, but we are really really bad at reading minds and guessing what a POSTER left out. In a forum, expectring people to guess what you have left out is one of the worst sins. I made a special effort not to sound patronising - great though the temptation was. It is best not to show attitude on forums, it tends to dry up the stream of answers, or at least to make them somewhat terse, as above. So you did think about being patronising but decided against it. It was obvious in your post ! I understand that it must be frustrating when people don't give clear information but I can't see where my post causes confusion. If I'm asking about a Hdd that has a broken USB connector then surely this would mean there must have been one on the drive. For you to even challenge this without realising that I must have already taken the drive out of its casing beggars belief. Quote from: dgreen on November 12, 2012, 12:36:21 AM For you to even challenge this without realising that I must have already taken the drive out of its casing beggars belief. dgreen, you need to stop digging. What am I digging for... Is it valuable? Quote from: dgreen on November 12, 2012, 02:06:02 AM What am I digging for... Is it valuable? Please stop. I depend on this forum for help and I have received a whole lot of it. As a neutral reader of this thread, please trust me when I tell you that you are coming across as a real jerk. People with attitudes like the one you are exhibiting turn-off volunteers which could make them less likely to help others.

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I've GOT a 2TB Western Digital WD20EADS HDD.
The USB connector snapped off so it LONGER worked with the USB cable.
I then tried connecting it with my sata docking station.
The drive was recognised in the 'safely remove Hardware and Eject media' icon (bottom right of screen, but when I tried to access the files through windows explorer the drive was not visible.
I opened Disk management which asked me to assign the drive, which I did but it was then asking me to format it but I obviously don't want to do this !
Can you help me recover the data from this HDD.

Thanks

DavidThe drive you mentioned has no USB connector.I think you'll find that it does.
I may not be the brightest computer guy in the world but I can certainly tell what a USB connector is.
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from but it's not accurate.!
Quote from: dgreen on November 10, 2012, 05:17:30 PM

I may not be the brightest computer guy in the world but I can certainly tell what a USB connector is.

Whereabouts on the drive is the USB connector? Can you see it in this picture, which shows a Western Digital WD Green WD20EADS 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive?

$Can you see the USB connector... I must be hallucinating !

[year+ old attachment deleted by admin] Quote from: dgreen on November 11, 2012, 01:44:12 AM

Can you see the USB connector... I must be hallucinating !

You said in your first post...

Quote from: dgreen

I've got a 2TB Western Digital WD20EADS HDD.

... which is an internal bare drive (I even showed a picture of it) and Computer Commando was entirely accurate to say it has no USB connector. It is an internal SATA drive. The picture you have now posted clearly shows the makers LABEL of a Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDBAAF0020HBK-00. You can see the part number on the label! This is a Western Digital external drive, which is an ordinary bare drive in a case, with a USB interface.

If you want to get help it is best to give proper, full information, otherwise people will get impatient.

If you have subjected the drive to enough force to actually break off the USB connector, you have almost certainly damaged the whole interface section of the external drive enclosure's circuit board. Your best bet now is to open the case and extract the drive, after which you can make some other arrangement to connect the drive, such as getting an empty USB enclosure and mounting the drive in that, assuming it is not also busted.

If the full story is that you already got the drive out of the case and you had quoted the part number of that drive, then it is possible that whatever accident broke off the external case's USB connector, also did some damage to the drive, especially if it was connected to a powered-on computer or to a power supply. If the drive has had rough treatment, you may be looking at a busted drive here.

I suspect he extracted the drive from the case & failed to mention that relevant fact.Listen,

I don't think the patronising tone is necessary.
I thought it was perfectly obvious that I had extracted the drive seeing as though I stated that I had connected it to my data dicking station.
I actually thought you guys could have PUT two and two together and not come up with five!
For your information the drive was not damaged but only the USB adapter.
I thought that even if a drive has been formatted accidentally its data can be recovered via some specialist software!
Are you able to help me out t all? Quote from: dgreen on November 11, 2012, 01:34:13 PM

I had connected it to my data dicking station.

I am quite sure that you did.

Start here

https://www.google.com/search?q=formatted+drive+recover+data
Quote from: dgreen on November 11, 2012, 01:34:13 PM

I actually thought you guys could have put two and two together and not come up with five!

We are all volunteers here; we know a bit, sometimes, about computer problem solving, but we are really really bad at reading minds and guessing what a POSTER left out. In a forum, expectring people to guess what you have left out is one of the worst sins. I made a special effort not to sound patronising - great though the temptation was. It is best not to show attitude on forums, it tends to dry up the stream of answers, or at least to make them somewhat terse, as above.

So you did think about being patronising but decided against it.
It was obvious in your post !
I understand that it must be frustrating when people don't give clear information but I can't see where my post causes confusion.
If I'm asking about a Hdd that has a broken USB connector then surely this would mean there must have been one on the drive.
For you to even challenge this without realising that I must have already taken the drive out of its casing beggars belief.
Quote from: dgreen on November 12, 2012, 12:36:21 AM

For you to even challenge this without realising that I must have already taken the drive out of its casing beggars belief.

dgreen, you need to stop digging.
What am I digging for... Is it valuable? Quote from: dgreen on November 12, 2012, 02:06:02 AM

What am I digging for... Is it valuable?

Please stop. I depend on this forum for help and I have received a whole lot of it. As a neutral reader of this thread, please trust me when I tell you that you are coming across as a real jerk. People with attitudes like the one you are exhibiting turn-off volunteers which could make them less likely to help others.

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