Thanks for your advice. In the end I purchased an identical WD drive, took that apart and removed the USB adapter from the new drive and put it onto the drive with all my content on it. I then re-assembled the drive, plugged it in via USB and - hey presto - it lives again and all my content is there.
Of course now I have a new, blank drive which has no USB adapter so I can’t use it. Anyone know where I can buy USB adapters for a WD 3TB Elements drive (WD30EZRX)?
