I have a My Book Essential which the USB board is burned out, I have taken the HDD out of the box and connected to the PC the drive is detected normally and no problem on the drive itself but the data is lost, I have tried several recover programs but only some files which I didn’t recognize find ou…

Hi, If your my book model supports hardware encryption you wont be able to recover the files, only when connected to the USB board the data can be decrypted.

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niftyone December 10, 2012, 6:32pm 3

I have the same problem.

I didn’t even see the large file you see.

what software did you use to see it?