What happened was that the included adapter for it (made by AcBel, model nr AD6008) suddenly stopped working (which by goggling it, turned out to have happened to a lot of people). After looking at what I would be charged for a new one (~50EUR), I decided to see if there were other options.
I went to check out some threads regarding the computer internal power supply and it turns out that CD/DVD, HDD and Floppy disk are all supplied with 5V/12V, which is exactly what is needed for most external hard drives as well.
Long story short, this is how you do:
How to change an external hard disk power supply to internal
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Anyone has had similar experiences with WD external HDD?Anyone has probs with external drive power supply?
yes,,,my Adapter 6008 will power up but when u plug it into the External Hard drive, the adapter loses power...called WD and they said they are out of stock to replace it,,,I have called for 2 weeks and get the same line,,,will look at how to change it to an internal shortly....Anyone has probs with external drive power supply?
I opened up the case. Pulled out the hard drive and bought and external hardrive case kit from best buy. I cliped it in and about 8 screws later had all my data acessable again. Kit runs about 60 bucks.
I almost threw out drive and counted missing files as a lost. I saved my files this way.
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Anyone has probs with external drive power supply?be sure to buy a SATA compatable external hardrive kit. It has the necessary connections to gte the drive pluged it
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