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Originally Posted by Aru7
MY WD My Book is not turning on anymore,
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How old is your Western Digital My Book?
If it's over 10 years old - then it's likely it has broken down.
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have successfully removed the drive out of the enclosure, Purchased SATA to USB Connector and connected the drive to Windows 8.1, The drive Shows up on the Disk Management but as "Not Initialized"
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Windows is saying it can see a drive is connected to the USB port but it can't read the drive.
It cannot access any files and thinks the disk is unformatted.
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Can anyone can confirm that
1. Whether this methods will work if linux is used via oracle VM ?
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I'm guessing what you mean is: can you use a linux distro to access your Windows home directory on your My Book HDD so you can save those files onto a different disk?
You can try. Simply install a live linux OS onto USB.
Boot the linux OS on USB from a computer and then connect your My Book HDD and see if the linux distro can access the Windows files.
The only problem is - if the HDD is not running - then it's a hardware issue.
Simply changing operating systems to access the hardware will not necessarily make the hardware start running again.
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2. Which distro i should use ?
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MX Linux, Ubuntu and Linux Mint are known to be user friendly.
I recently installed Linux Mint onto USB and it was quite easy.
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3. Does Linux detect External HDD's while its connected via VM on windows PC Host ?
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Yes. But using a VM is a more complicated method than using a live linux usb. IMO.