My Book Live 1TB is dead....HELP!

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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OK, let me start by acknowledging that I have been very stupid, I have not backed up the data on my drive elsewhere. :grimacing:

So, my WD My book live is completely dead. I plug it in, no lights, nothing!. I have tested the power adapter on another device and it works fine, so it’s definitely the NAS. I’m guessing that the controller board could be fried?

What I would like to know now is, what are my options? do I even have any with regards to retrieving the data?

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Pull the disk out of the drive enclosure. Attach the disk to a SATA-USB adapter and then attach it to your computer. Boot your computer in Linux or install software on your computer that reads Linux formated disks.

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Follow the steps here up to step 2 to recover your files.