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How to dismantle a Western Digital MyBook Pro Edition hard drive

Western Digital’s ‘MyBook’ range of external drives come in all shapes and sizes. Whilst I could find a ‘how to’ for a lot of models I couldn’t find one that covered dismantling the MyBook Pro edition (the one pictured here). My model was a WD5000E032. Inside the disk itself was a Western Digital (no surprises [...]

TECH: Western Digital MyBook Pro and OSX Time Machine

If anyone has recently bought one of these drives, or intends to, the following may be of interest. Having plugged in a brand spanking new MyBook Pro 500GB to use as my new backup drive I couldn’t understand why I kept receiving the error “Error Code 0…” when trying to back up files manually (this [...]