I had a WD My Book that still spun, but all the led lights no longer lit up and I could no longer connect to it. I tried to connect it via the USB port, however it still was not recognized by my mac. I’ve tried another USB enclosure for the drive, however it still was not picked up on my mac.
I was able to bring up the drive using Disk Utility, however I was unable to repair / verify the drive.
The drive is a WD10EACS and I’m using OSx 10.7. Is their any way I can recover the data on this drive?
If it was a drive that came with Smartware the data is hardware encrypted by the board with the USB port. Without that board any data recovered is encrypted and useless.
I still have the board, but when I use the USB port, my mac can’t find the drive. I assume something is wrong with the board, however I have no idea how to trouble shoot the board. I’ve tried a different power source and connection cables, but none of that worked. Any ideas where to go from here?
