My Book Essential WDBAAFXX 4060-705059 Controller Board

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
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Does anyone know where I can buy this part from? The USB port on the hard drive became detached ( http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-for-PC/Loose-USB-port-on-WD-external-hard-drive/m-p/72396#M3048) and I got an electrician to re-solder it but the computer still doesn’t recognise it.

So the last option is to buy this part, but can’t seem to find anywhere that ships to the UK. I would rather not buy a new My Book just to remove this part and get my data off, but if I have to then what is the cheapest model with the same controller board?

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You can’t buy the board and they are not interchangeable. About the only thing to try is find an electronics repair person and see if they can solder on a new USB port.

Joe

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I have actually managed to repair this hard drive with a controller board purchased on ebay. Just needed to make sure the controller board numbers matched e.g. Rev AF and it was a simple case of screwing it in. The re-soldering didn’t work but there is hope for people out there with similar issues.