This literally just happened to me and at the WORST possible time. First off my laptop HDD crashed due to multiple issues with my OS so I was in the process of starting up with a virtual OS disc to recover the contents (IMPORTANT WORK INFO!) and the USB connector came off inside the enclosure for my 2TB WD external hdd when I was hooking it up to pull the 300GB of data…now I am down 2 hard drives. I have an extended warranty through AAFES (Base Exchange on military base) but I don’t see how I would be able to recover my data since they would probably just send me a new drive and take mine back without transfering data…So it boils down to voiding my warranty and recovering my data with this fix or chance sending it in. I really feel better about this whole debacle that the resolder has fixed it for folks. I have almost 1TB of data on the external (photo archives, ect.) so need to get this fixed one way or another and this data is also more important than a warranty if it comes down to it. Thank you for the confidence that my years of photos,etc I backed up to this drive may not be gone forever. I will post back once the dust settles if this worked. Luckily my custom built laptop has 2 HDD drive slots and I will be able to slave in a new HDD to pull everything off the failing drive…just means I am down my laptop for a few days for work and until i decide what to do about my external that too.
Signed,
Insult to Injury
