So I've had this WD My Book external hard drive for 5+ years doing nothing. It wouldn't work years ago so I decided to leave it alone and use a smaller one. I recently took it out of it's plastic shell. It occurred to me that I could send it in to get the data recovered. The data isn't a big deal to me atm however I was wondering if it's possible to connect the old drive internally to my pc to get the data off of it? If it powers up. I checked the back of the drive and had 3 ports , 1 power , 1 odd one with a white cap over 2 of the pins and a long what looks like a old floppy port. I'm not sure I want to just start plugging stuff in and turning on my pc just to watch it blow up. I'm not quite sure how to proceed. Either try plugging in different ports or find a cable like a SATA to Usb, This drive doesn't have a SATA port since it was made 2006. I would be surprised if it turned on imo.