Slide the circuit board upwards (away from the drive), just like you did for the metal casing.Ħ. Remove the two screws holding the metal connector casing. Rotate the hard drive/carrier assembly sideways and then lift away from the caseĤ. Slide the clear plastic LED front panel conduit forward and remove.ģ. Note that it is easier to lift the round corners of the case and pop it out of the retainers than it is to slide it off due to the very tight fit of the sliding components.Ģ. You can now slide the plastic casings apart. There are some locking mechanisms there that need to be held apart. With a couple of credit cards, pry the back edge of the casing apart and hold them open with the credit cards. Depress the two tabs below using a small flat-head screwdriver.ġa.

Locate the two rubber pads on the bottom of the enclosure near the front, curved surface.

So here you go, the steps required to disassemble a new-style Western Digital My Book drive enclosure.ġ. Unfortunately, this wasn’t an obvious process and this excellent article by Scott Cramer didn’t apply to the newer version (1 TB drive) enclosure I have. These activity LED are highly welcomed, even though hard drive activity can be easily heard by the hard drive’s seek noise.I recently needed to removed the drive from a Western Digital My Book External USB/eSATA drive enclosure. When the hard drive is being accessed, an additional LED will shine red, indicating hard drive activity. The light is not bright enough to blind you, but it is bright enough to be seen at a distance. Once the BlacX is powered on, the status LED will glow blue. Thermaltake has written a quick tutorial on how to achieve a format: The latter can be accessed by running 'diskmgmt.msc'. If the installed hard drive was not previously formatted, which is the case of a newly purchased hard drive, it will need a format through Windows' Disk Management. If the eSATA connector is used, the installed hard drive will be recognized as a normal disk drive, and the required AHCI drivers will be installed, which will then require a reboot of the operating system.

The drivers for Windows XP and Vista (32 bit and 64 bit) are available for download on Thermaltake USA: If the USB 2.0 connector is used, the BlacX will be recognized as a 'USB Mass Storage Device', and the required drivers will be automatically installed by the operating sytem.

At this point, the BlacX will be plugged to a power source and to a computer, using either the USB 2.0 or eSATA connectors. The depth of the opening is about 1 ½ feet, or 3 cm, which is more than sufficient to hold the hard drive snugly. Little effort is needed to connect the hard drive to the BlacX. Installation of the Thermaltake BlacX HDD docking station is highly straightforward the hard drive is simply slid into the top opening of the BlacX with the SATA and power connectors facing down.

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