I have a 1 TB MyBook Live purchased a few years ago. Out of the blue, it began “clicking” and I couldn’t access it. Not even the web page for the drive. As I understand it, either the control board or the drive itself has failed.
From the beginning, the LED in front of the drive failed intermittently, and was fixed by some firmware update. When I plug it in, it turns green after a little while, then goes off, then turns green after a while longer. The green light lasts a few seconds.
it isn’t under warranty anymore (and I purchased it in the US, while living in Mexico, so any attempts to get warranty service would have been shot anyway). Has anyone had this experience? Anything I can do to recover the info on the drive? Can I open the drive and try to connect it to my computer directly (Macbook Pro) through a USB case or something like that?
I think I read somewhere it uses EXT4 filesystem.
I really need to get the drive working for a little while at least, so that I can recover some info on it (about 50 GB are really important to me, the rest isn’t)… any suggestions?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!