Recover my data after controller died

[JoeySmyth]

My Books have hardware encryption so you can just simply remove the hard drive and plug it into a 3rd party enclosure and recover your data.

But, apparently the encryption can be bypassed using Linux OS and you can recover your data.

see user thomas_kaeding post

How to decrypt a WD MyBook drive after its removed from the enclosure?

I’m having the same issue. Keep getting error message “The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.” even after trying with another controller board with the same encryption numbers. The USB port broke off the original board which is why I’m having this issue. Drive is good… just can’t get to the data. Please let me know if there are any known solutions. I’m willing to pay a significant amount of money to retrieve my data.

GitHub - themaddoctor/linux-mybook-tools: tools for opening some encrypted WD My Book drives...