Thank you both the replies. Do you think I should try buying a new cable as the last option for doing something on my own before turning to a professional (which I currently am unable to pay for so the HDD will have to wait in the drawer for a few months before I save up anyway) or is there no way t...

I have WD Passport external HDD and yesterday, when I was transferring some photos to it, the transfer suddenly stopped. I thought nothing of it, retried a few times - nothing. So I restarted my PC and after that, the drive didn't work anymore. When you connect it to a PC, the white LED keeps blinki...