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I was notified by a local technician who stated that Western Digital external hard drives automatically encrypt through the PCB. I was also advised that the PCB version numbers should match as hard drive firmware is paired with the revision of each board. In my case: 4061-705094-001 Rev AA was...

I've solved my problem. As for my data, I have it all back. The USB 3.0 port on the back of the WD Mybook Essential Enclosure had a damaged pin which caused the initial read failure. When I removed the HDD from the enclosure and placed it in the drive, the data was read as unallocated because...

Hey all, in regards to these steps of creating a simple volume: If the "unallocated" HDD already has data on it and you create a simple volume without formatting it, will you be able to see the data that was already on the drive. I'm having this issue and I think my partition table was...

I am having a similar problem. I have a Western Digital 2TB hard drive which used to be an external HDD. My wife moved the hard drive and appeared to have a damaged a pin on the controller card for the USB cable on the enclosure so my hard drive was not being accessed. I removed the HDD and...