WD MyBook Essential Recovery

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Story: recently one of my WD MBE hard drive stop working

i did open hard cover and i realize 125Mhz Crystal OSC on the board is the cuase

i am in the country that there is n’t such thing to buy

i try to recover my data with RunTime Get Data back but isn’t work

i try to recover my data with hexeditor but there isn’t any valid file system on it

i did not encrypt my data with user password

i think it had a default hardware data encryption

i change the board crystal with12Mhz

board was run but couldn’t connect to computer

if I know algorithm and the key i can decrypt my data

please help

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About the only solution is to find another board someplace like Ebay or an identical drive. Maybe this will shed some lingt on it http://community.wdc.com/t5/Off-Topic-Discussions/Bridge-Boards/td-p/353839  fzabkar is about the only one who understands these boards. You can try sending him a PM.

Joe

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