Thanks Rob. Mine is a bit different from the couple on the site site you pointed to, and the others linked to that, but it did confirm my suspicion that WD hides their catches/screws/etc. under labels, rubber feet, etc. With that and a bit of judicious force I have the outter case off. I'll deal with the rest tomorrow.
stan On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:26 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: > On 24/03/2010, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > >> Questions: >> Do I assume that the drive interface within the case is eSATA? >> Does anyone have a clue how to open one of these beasties? I have a power >> saw but am not sure where to start cutting. Seriously, there are no screw >> heads etc. visible to me. > > Hi Stan, > > SATA or PATA (standard old parallel IDE) depending on the age I would > expect. I haven't opened one yet but I expect that it's glued > together, not the type of thing you'd generally consider attempting to > repair ;-) > > A starting point perhaps: > > http://carltonbale.com/western-digital-my-book-opening-the-case-removing-the-drive > > Cheers, > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
