Previous version number is 1110, the new one is 1130. I replaced the usb brdige card with one from another MyBook Essential but a newer version, with USB3.0 support. Otherwise the size of files are sometimes defined as so huge (maybe larger than disk volume) or contents do not have meaning. If the file is recovered coorectly it is highly likely from WD Smartware part. Through sata, data recovery tools can find files in disk. Since the whole disk is encrypted (by usb bridge card) you cannot see the MBR and partition tables correctly when you connect via sata, so all disk seems as unallocated. I repaired the usb bridge card and now everything is OK.Īs opposit to the technical service explanations, it does really differ to connect the disk to computer via usb or via sata.
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If you can’t obtain an identical replacement, then you will need to transplant the 8-pin serial flash memory chip from your original bridge board to your donor.
If the USB-SATA bridge board is faulty, then you will need to repair it, or replace it with an identical board from an identical product of the same capacity. You need to reinstall the drive in its original enclosure in order to see your data. Therefore the pattern is consistent with an MBR that has a partition table consisting of a single partition. This is where the information for the 2nd and 3rd partitions would be stored. You can also see two more such lines at offsets 1D0 and 1E0. The encryption algorithm is AES 128-bit (128 bits = 16 bytes). These represent three lines of encrypted zeros. Starting at offset 0x00000180 you can see three identical lines of 16 bytes (78 5F 69 … 03). Here is a direct link to your image (no ads, banners, popups,etc): The drive is a western digital, my book, essential edition, external hard drive wd10000h1u-0 purchased for aud 200.
I am unable to a small, but needed more programs. My book user manual about your wd drive 2. Western digital my book troubleshooting, repair, and service manuals. The data are hardware encrypted whether or not you have set a password. Wd ses device is to my book essential model name.