Hi
I work at a school, and we have lost important data because of a faulty WD 1TB Book essentials drive.
We have taken it apart, and tested the motherboard in the enclosure. It seems to be the problem.
I have hooked it up to a regular PC now and in Windows it says ‘uninitialized’. The drive does spin.
I have installed linux and ran the program reallymine (GitHub - andlabs/reallymine: WD MyBook encrypted hard drive decryption (still WIP).) which was able to find the DEK (decryption key). However, after trying “sudo file -sL /dev/mapper/wd” I do not get the required ‘DOS MBR Bootsector’, so I think the drive is still not readable.
I have read and followed instructions from https://github.com/themaddoctor/linux-mybook-tools/raw/master/Mounting%20encrypted%20WD%20disks%20in%20linux.pdf
How should I continue?
