I have a MyBook 4TB which had a bad USB port. Simple enough, I’ll just remove the drive and dock it and recover my stuff (bought a My Passport to put it on), right? “Drive not formatted” error.
After much research, I find that there was a chip inside the enclosure which encrypted the information. Ugh. WHY?! I found a DIY to fix it using Linux, but it’s honestly over my head and I don’t have Linux anyway.
Can anyone help me? I have YEARS of info on that drive that needs recovered.
Thanks!
~Michael
First of all, I recommend you do nothing to your data at all. At most make a backup image of your data. Do not modify or reformat the drive.
If the files are extremely important to you, take it to a recommended drive recovery center. It will not be cheap, and when I say it wont be cheap, I mean, if that data isnt worth 500-5000 usd, then you’ll have to take your chances yourself.
If you do not want to spend that amount of money, my first suggestion would be to try to figure out whats wrong with the enclosure.
Could it be that the power supply thats included no longer works? Perhaps there is an obviously blown component on the pcb. I would start with that first.
Before any recovery operation though, I would make sure you have a drive of equal sizing to clone your current drive too.
