Micro USB damaged, any replacement or fix?

"I had a WD MyBook go down. The board fried. I bought an identical one and switched the internal drives and got my data off. The drive was under warranty but I would have lost all my data if I had just taken it back. I did return the drive after my data was safe.

You may also be able to put your drive in an external exclosure."

http://www.datarecoverytools.co.uk/2010/...

"I am going to share 2 links.

They are very helpful and they have the most comprehensive information you need an get when it comes to damaged usb connector on external drives.

It explains clearly what you should do if your data is encrypted or what if your usb is soldered on to the PCB without a SATA connector, etc.

http://forum.hddguru.com/western-digital...

http://community.wdc.com/t5/Off-Topic-Di...

Western Digital external hard drives are wreaking havoc around the globe with their lousy usb connectors."

"I had a format problem with the Western Digital 1TB external drive.

I tried to format my WD Elements with Windows 7 format tool. That rendered the hard drive useless. I then downloaded the WD formatting tool for the drive. After running this tool, I got a message… “Format Failed.” Nothing more, and no advise on how to proceed. After some research, I learned that the Mac “Disk Utility” tool might format the drive. I tried this, running into many hours of writing zeroes. That operation halted about half way through.

My computer is a dual boot (Windows 7/Ubuntu 12.04.) I booted to Ubuntu and used that disk utility. I first deleted the partition, then formatted to NTFS. The drive now works as it should.

Buddy"