Step 1. Don’t bother. As there are “user serviceable parts inside.”
Step 2. Well if you insist on opening this piece of crud, the actual steps follow.
Step 1
- using a blunt, thin object (say a small screwdriver), slide it along the gap between the “body” and the “case”.
- work the screwdriver around the edge.
Step 2
- slide the body away from the case
Step 2a
(the drive separated from the case)
Step 3
Drive details
Model: WD5000BMVU-11A08S0
Why I don’t like it?: It was a SATA drive which Western Digital has grafted a permanent USB interface. It sucks.
So it’s really “a permanent USB interface”, there is no way to remove it & use the HDD as a regular SATA drive?
Pierre, yes it is. I posted a picture here:
So is the Western Digital drive really “a permanent USB interface”
Thank you for replying & posting that photo. I have a few WD Passports & extracted the 400 GB Scorpio Blue SATA HDD from a WD My Passport Elite & sucessfully used it in my ODD bay HDD caddy: How to install a secondary hard drive in the optical drive bay of a VAIO VPCF Series http://www.monteverde.org/images/Sony_Vaio_F11/VAIO_VPCF_Secondary_Hard_Drive_in_Optical_Bay.htm
I have an other one like yours & searching brought me here. You saved me the work & disapointment, thanks!
This post may be useful for others: “According to an article at http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1192095 if the drive is identified by “BBB” it has the updated USB port built-in. If it is identified as “A7B” or “B7B”, is should be usable within the context of this article. This identifier may be found on the exterior case of “My Passport” just after the S/N as the R/N.” found here: http://jasontomczak.com/2008/05/26/western-digital-my-passport-elite-320gb-great-for-macbook-pro/#comment-859