[SOLVED] all wd mybooks show same content in file explorer

[edwinhturlington]

I have several mybooks that are all corrupted. I downloaded recuva, pc file inspector file recovery, disk doctor, iboysoft disk recovery, disk drill, orion, wondershare, bplan, wd diagnostics, and testdisk. I ran all through the first one, none worked, and now all of them show up the same in file explorer.

I have attached a screen shot.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HRewUrl3OPveDIHtt5g7qiHXpTD_KbYM/view?usp=sharing




I had years of old family records and photos and movies on those drives.

If anyone can tell me anything how to fix this problem, at least starting with getting file explorer to rad the contents for each mybook instead of showing the same thing, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[hang-the-9]

It is a bit odd that you have several drives that are corrupted. How did that happen? The files you show are from a standard computer drive, should not be from an external one. Boot, EFI, Recovery, etc.. are all files that belong on a main boot drive of a computer not for any file backups.

You may have done something wrong here. Need some details with this corruption and what exactly did you do with the drives. It almost seems like you cloned or copied the same disk to all of them.

You also show the contents of drive D, there is a drive E that looks to be an external drive. Are you maybe just looking at the wrong disk?

 

[edwinhturlington]

Thanks for the reply
the E drive is the 4tb external I just bought to transfer everything from my corrupted drives.
And they are all old. They didnt crash all at the same time, I would put a bunch of photos on one, then music, then play music off it for several hundred hours, or movies etc. Before I learned that external files were supposed to be to just store stuff, not play files constantly on them. I dont know how long wd has been making mybooks but that is almost how old some of those external drives are. They would go bad, then I would buy another with the iintention of trying to recover the corrupted drives myself or take them in to a specialist

And up until recently, I always had my old photos on an internal drive so I wasnt that worried about it.

The reason I listed all those programs is maybe I thought I had made a boot drive on accident on one of the mybooks, but even if I did, it wasnt all of them.
(I have 4 that are bad) because one I grabbed right and tested right before I made the OP hadnt been connected to a drive in years, and when I first put it in it showed the same as I showed you in that screenshot.

My computer is 2 months old also. It is a pavilion, I will disconnect the new passport also and reboot and se if that helps reading the corrupted mybook.

I am assuming it will cost hundreds or more to recover the stuff on these books if I have to take them in so I am really trying to troubleshoot it here first.

thanks again for your help

 

[hang-the-9]

Thanks for the reply
the E drive is the 4tb external I just bought to transfer everything from my corrupted drives.
And they are all old. They didnt crash all at the same time, I would put a bunch of photos on one, then music, then play music off it for several hundred hours, or movies etc. Before I learned that external files were supposed to be to just store stuff, not play files constantly on them. I dont know how long wd has been making mybooks but that is almost how old some of those external drives are. They would go bad, then I would buy another with the iintention of trying to recover the corrupted drives myself or take them in to a specialist

And up until recently, I always had my old photos on an internal drive so I wasnt that worried about it.

The reason I listed all those programs is maybe I thought I had made a boot drive on accident on one of the mybooks, but even if I did, it wasnt all of them.
(I have 4 that are bad) because one I grabbed right and tested right before I made the OP hadnt been connected to a drive in years, and when I first put it in it showed the same as I showed you in that screenshot.

My computer is 2 months old also. It is a pavilion, I will disconnect the new passport also and reboot and se if that helps reading the corrupted mybook.

I am assuming it will cost hundreds or more to recover the stuff on these books if I have to take them in so I am really trying to troubleshoot it here first.

thanks again for your help

So are you not actually showing the drive(s) connected? In the screenshot what is that D drive? To me that D drive is actually labeled recovery, so it's either a recovery partition or you cloned that partition by accident to the external drive. You said they all show the same thing, which should never happen unless you somehow cloned a drive to them all while doing whatever you were doing to get the files back. If you want to share what the disks look like, you need to actually connect the disk to the system, then show what is inside them all, not list a drive not related to the issue like that E drive.

There are no issues with playing files off an external drive, I do it all the time, but I don't keep my ONLY copy of the files on the external drive, I have several copies on another drive. If you only have one copy of a file, even if it is on an external drive, that is not a "backup".

You may want to find someone local to you to help, you would need to swap the drives around, they need to see exactly how the drives act when you try to use them, try the drives on different operating systems, maybe remove them from the enclosure, etc...