Comments on: How to Open a Western Digital Elements 500GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive Case

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:53:23 +0000

Worked perfectly on my 1TB western Digital HDD Thanks
Now my media center has lots more room yipppeeee!

By: anders

anders — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:32:56 +0000

I bought a 1 TB WB elements a 2009 3,5″ model. WDBAAU0010HBK-01.
contained a normal 1TB caviar green SATA drive, with a slip on sata to usb board. I butchered the casing, not its inside my NAS TS 239 PRO.

By: wdelements se

wdelements se — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:07:15 +0000

Thanks for the method, but It’s useless to open the new USB3 WD Elements SE, since the USB3 interface is now integrated on the controller’s board and you cannot remove it (there’s no SATA connector) mine is R/N: D3B DCM: BAABAAA Model WDBPCK5000ABK-EESN

By: Rikkie

Rikkie — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:13:11 +0000

i am trying to fix the USB port on my 1TB SE Elements drive. It is very loose and wont pick up my connection will opening it and pressing it toghter work for a temp fix to get the information off my hard drive. I am sorry if this sounds stupid but im not a great computer guy and you sound like you know what your talking about with this. Im a solider stuck in Afghanistan so i wasent able to send it back and recive a new one for my Warrenty because i taken it over sea. So i had to buy a new one and im at leaset trying to recover my information on it.

By: Paco

Paco — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:21:33 +0000

Noooooo!! I wish I would have seen these posts before. I have bought the WD Elements SE 1Tb (although, pretty cheap) and it doesn’t have the f…. SATA interface only this stupid microUSB.
I’ll try to change it, wish me luck…

By: ben

ben — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:32:53 +0000

I found this very helpful. This worked for my WD Elements 320Gb. I was taking out the hard drive to swap with ps3 60Gb Seagate 5200rpm. Unfortunately after putting the WD elements back together it didn’t support the hard-drive but oh well, I got to upgrade my ps3! THANKS AGAIN

By: Bertrand

Bertrand — Sun, 22 May 2011 09:14:53 +0000

Thank You for this tutorial

By: J .Sopan

J .Sopan — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:54:44 +0000

this is perhaps the best explained procedure

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:14:55 +0000

Thank you! Your procedure worked perfectly on a WD Elements 320GB drive manufactured on 24 Dec 2010

By: Gamoorie

Gamoorie — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:42:29 +0000

Hey dude, I especially like this awesome article! I have been reading that external hard drives have issues like this commonly, and work when taken out of the enclosure and placed into a computer instead. Thanks!