Anybody have any experience/equipment recommendations?
Long story short: My sister in law has dumped her defunct WD "my passport" external drive on me as it's dead in the water. It still spins up and sounds fine but there's no contacting the IO controller.
Turns out it's one of the new type of external drive that has a built in USB controller (so can't just dock it into a std SATA connector) but apparently the SATA terminals are on the PCB I just have to wire directly to them... Also there may or may not be hardware encrytion on it, great..
So, before I get out my pointiest soldering iron tip, has anybody any advice (other than don't buy a WD external drive!)
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Needless to say you have filled me with confidence...
I'll let you know when I've broken it though (the drive not the encryption).