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These days all I seem to see around me is "encryption mania." Endless questions about how to activate encryption on disc drives, smart phone storage, instant messaging and calling, etc. There are scads of drives out there that don't have the feature yours has, including some from WD itself. It is incumbent on you to look at what those are before you buy. I am honestly and truly not trying to rub salt in an open wound, but the responsibility for the product you choose to buy and knowing its feature set before you do so is yours.Īll products come with "default settings" some of which can be reconfigured by the end user and some of which cannot.
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WD should be able to confirm for you as well just with model and serial number if you e-mail or web contact support with that question.). My memory is not wrong in that there were apparently versions of the MyBook that do not have the encryption feature. I doubt that anyone is going to be able to recover anything that's actually encrypted on that drive and that's everything given the way this drive works (then again, get your precise model number and check that out. The question being whether one could order, at reasonable price, a replacement USB bridge card directly from WD that was guaranteed to match the exact iteration that's in your own drive, as it was a crap shoot, and a very lucky one, for the person who made that video. The video posted by John_C21 pretty much covers the situation you've got going on no matter how it is you arrived there. It seems to me that while you are not in an absolutely no-win situation, the resolution to this is going to be difficult at best.
Win 7 backup failure to wd my book external hard drive password#
Have you tried plugging the drive in to see what happens? Everything I've seen says that you have to screw up the password 5 times before the auto-erase kicks in, and since I presume you know your password one try should either give you access (though perhaps crippled in some way) to the drive or you would know that the hardware is "fried enough" that you aren't even prompted for it. It's the first and primary line of defense. In most cases, physical security should be more than sufficient, and if it isn't, you need to be asking yourself why. My universal advice: Do NOT use encryption of any sort unless the nature of the data demands it and physical security of the backup media is not considered to be sufficient. I have seen more hell unleashed by "encryption gone wrong" in the sense of hardware failures such as this one (and the one on the video) and people forgetting passwords. I really despise encryption with a burning passion in any instance where it is not essential, and if ever there were an example of where it's not essential it's most people's backups of their own home or small office computers. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password." I've just seen yours come in.Īlso, made a quick visit to the Western Digital site and found this about the MyBook, which blew me away, as I thought I'd recalled these as being "basic" external recovery drives: " The My Book drive’s built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with WD Security™ tools helps keep your content private and safe. Others will likely differ, and strongly, regarding that last bit.
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Win 7 backup failure to wd my book external hard drive professional#
If the hardware is not detected then we're back to "you need professional data recovery." Based on what's been offered so far this does not seem to be a device where mechanical failure in progress is suspected so I would not hesitate to run TestDisk against it in an effort to recover to another drive if I could. Normally I'd just recommend downloading TestDisk and SeaTools (or the WD equivalent, and something in the mists of memory makes me think there is one), run the latter against the drive if it is recognized and try the former if it is not (but the hardware is detected). My problem, so far, is that we really don't have any idea what's wrong and, since I cannot be 100% certain about whether just plugging this thing in as an external drive could have negative consequences, I don't want to recommend that. That being said, if that USB bridge is "burned out" that takes us straight back to "you need professional data recovery." That's an issue of its own, that's for sure.