1 TB MyBook World hard drive - disassembled HD from unit - need to extract files

After reading WD Community answers ID 568 and ID 70, my conclusion was that I probably had a failure in the motherboard of the unit, but not the hard drive.  Reading further, WD says that repair of such a unit is not done by WD…that I should purchase a new unit.  Thanks very much, WD.  So, I decided to disassemble the unit to isolate the hard drive and have easily done so.  It is a WD10EAVS hard drive.  The ‘stuff’ I would like to retrieve, that is unfortunately not backed up elsewhere, is on this hard drive.

Question:  Is there a device with a USB or other type of port that will allow me to download the contents of this WD10EAVS hard drive onto a my desktop?  Alternatively, just looking at the standard SATA Power/Serial Data port on the drive, does someone know if my desktop might be able to access the contents with its spare (2nd) hard drive slot, either directly or with an adapter of some type?

AC Falk

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If this is a drive that came with Smartware the data is hardware encrypted. If you do get it to connect to yout PC you will have necrypted data.

Joe

Dear Joe_S:

This sounds like you’re saying I’m up the creek without a paddle.  Is that right?

AC Falk

You can try searching for a circuit board on Ebay. This might help explain a bit about the boards  http://community.wd.com/t5/Off-Topic-Discussions/Bridge-Boards/td-p/353839  and this  https://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/70/session/L3RpbWUvMTM5MDMyNjIwNS9zaWQvZVBrTU9YS2w%3D

Joe

the “data” on the drive is not encrypted, only the USB link interface is encrypted when using WD security lock tool. the data will reside in normal RAW format on the disk.