Hi there, I have a 3TB MyBook Essential that recently died. It would not power on. I tried a different power adapter (12V DC, same as the one the drive game with) and still no luck. It appears the enclosure is truly dead. I removed the drive from the enclosure and plugged it directly into a com…

It turns out that this drive is encrypted. That’s why it looks like gibberish when plugged directly into another computer (even linux). WD made a really bizarre decision here. If you don’t enable encryption on this drive, it is, by default, still encrypted with a key that’s stored on the controll…

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Recovering data from dead 3TB My Book Essential

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JoeySmyth September 12, 2015, 4:00am 4

I remember reading about this 3 years ago …

http://community.wd.com/t5/External-Drives-for-PC/My-Book-encrypted-files/td-p/457534

which is why i’ve only ever bought WD “Elements” HDD’s … or anything that doesent have encryption

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