I don't think it would work (just because of how the thing behaved when I tested it), but please someone try it if thats your only other option and let us all know. IMPORTANT NOTE: I don't know if changing the board for a new one would have worked. I would recommend to stay the hell away from encrypted drives. Then reformat the drive and put data back on. F*CK THIS THING! After I'm done, I will throw the board in the bin and replace it with a generic interface. When I've finished copying the data off this board, I'll try to get a photo of it as it is now and post it. This is what the control board should look like: But screw paying Western Digital $700 to "attempt recovery" or anyone else $1400 for the same. A few hours later I was able to put it back together but had badly burnt and destroyed the board. I started it copying, the cat jumped up on my desk and knocked it all off and tore up the board so insanely much more. In my wisdom I assembled all this on the edge of the desk precariously balanced. But again, I can't format partition initialize or anything.Īt about this point I took a gamble and put the clients drive back in and BAM. So it's seeing the onboard firmware virtual CD drive as well as my hdd. On the mac, OSX tells me the drive needs to be initialized but also informs me of another drive being there and not being disconnected properly. After the reattach, I put a spare drive onto it to test it before I try with the clients drive. I solder everything where I think it was supposed to lead to. So I finally develop a method that I can redo the soldering with my hand tremor and still pull it off. I just didn't want to wait for delivery of a new board and neither did the client. Now I'm not sure, so don't give up hope, but it would be pointless otherwise. Even if I buy a new board, I'm fairly certain these things are uniquely encrypted. It's encrypted via hardware as well as software. I take another look at the board and see the Initio IC on there. Thats when I see this forum and what Dr-Kiev said.
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I just didn't have a steady enough hand and there were a few surface mount components ripped off the board already so when it didn't work I figured it was cactus and went back to looking how to crack it. But I give it a go with exactly those tools. The copper it so badly damaged you need a microscope and incredibly fine detail soldering iron to even attempt this. So I go back to the board and decide to start trying to reattach the usb port. None of the operating systems could format or partition or do anything to this drive. Linux sees the device as well, but attempts to mount the drive under any of the possible filesystem types fail.
I can see the presence of the drive in Device Manager and to some extent in the Storage Manager Snap-in, but that's it. On my mac, OSX says the drive needs to be initialized. Next I separated the hard drive from it's controller and put it into a new hard drive caddy.
The usb port has been ripped off the board and taken a lot of copper with it. You pretty much pry very gently around the seam. There are no special places to insert screwdrivers to losen it nicely. Single usb port on the back is the only interface. I means everything to me." I was given the Western Digital MyBook Essentials. Here is the story of what I went through.Ī drive was given to me and they told me "I dropped it and the USB port is pushed in. I signed up to this forum just to post this. This is the most concise answer you're going to find on the internet for this one.ĭr-Kiev is correct.
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