WD External - broken usb - not working as an internal. What am I missing

I have a WD My Book 2TB 2.0 that after two years had its usb break.  I don’t have money for any professional recovery or anything like that.  Nor do I have the skills to attempt to solder the usb piece back onto the pcp board. 

So I took the sata hard drive out of the enclosure, removed the PCP board, etc.  So now it looks like your standard sata hard drive.  I Tried plugging it into my computer.  My computer recgonizes both my windows boot hard drive and the former wd external hard drive in the boot screen.  It recognizes the proper sizes of the drives, non-raid and everything.  But when I get to windows.  Nothing happens, no automatic driver install.  I can’t use my former wd external drive in my PC.  Am I missing a step?  What could I be doing wrong?  I would assume the drive works fine if my computer can recognize and get the proper info on it, on boot.  But when in windows, nothing shows up.  Its like I don’t even have a drive connected.  I haven’t installed a hard drive in my PC in over four years so I may well be forgetting a step.  Any help is appreciated. 

If this is a drive that came with Smartware it is hardware encrypted by the board with the USB port. Any data recovered will be encrypted and useless. What OS are you using? Does the drive show in Disk Management, have a drive letter assigned and is it online?

Joe

its not assigned a drive letter in windows, no.  I’m not concerned about recovering the data as I said, I’m just trying to make it a working hard drive.  If that means wiping it clean, so be it.  I haven’t tried disk management, how would I use disc management on a drive that isn’t showing up on windows.  I have vista by the way.  I know how to use disc management on drives that show up and are assigned a letter, this isn’t appearing, I also mentioned that in the previous message.  The only time I see that this drive is recognized at all is during the bootup screen.  It shows my two hard drives (of which this is included).  Could it have something to do with not having a master/slave tab installed.  I remember in the past, hard drives needed those.  This one doesn’t have a master/slave cap over any of the pins.