[SOLVED] Installed an external hard drive internally but...

[elbastardo8888]

Hello, I recently had an external hard drive stop working. Long story short, it's now installed inside and doesn't disconnect like it had been as an external however the format is not recognized and asks to be formatted. The only reason I'm doing this is to get the data back so plan b will be to quick format and try recovery but since the drive was password protected I imagine that won't work? Is there a way to get windows to read it properly?
I saw a video saying to use electrical tape on one pin of the sata connection but I'm not sure if that's for this version or not.
The external drive is a WD my book 1tb.

Thank you

 

[rgd1101]

https://community.wd.com/t/western-digital-mybook-encryption/154384

 

[elbastardo8888]

https://community.wd.com/t/western-digital-mybook-encryption/154384

Ok so it's encrypted; will any of the things I mentioned work? The electrical tape thing that they say works for WD external drives? Formatting and recovery? Is the only thing I can do to assemble it as an external again and try to get it fixed?
This is the video explaining the electrical tape thing

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5OuwYcC2vU

Thanks

 

[rgd1101]

no on electrical tape
no on format and recovery
yes on fixing the external. might want to contact WD

video is useless. your issue is getting your data back, which is hardware encrypted

lesson here is backup your data.

 

[elbastardo8888]

no on electrical tape
no on format and recovery
yes on fixing the external. might want to contact WD

video is useless. your issue is getting your data back, which is hardware encrypted

lesson here is backup your data.

Thanks I appreciate it!