New Firmware Version 1.02.12 for the My Book World I & II (10/19/11)

@kimmyjus before you fork out those sums… have you first tried connectng via Ethernet? If that fails too, you could open up the MBW ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Disassembling-MyBook-World-Edition/)) and connect the disk to a machine running Ubuntu (or any machine that can read linux partitions), and from there you should be able to access the data…