My 2TB My Book USB 3.0 had problems, constantly disconnecting. I removed the Caviar Green HDD inside and put it in a new enclosure, and it is not having any disconnects. But the HDD does not show up in My Computer. I can see it in Windows Disk Management, but it shows up as having no partition, and “Unallocated”. I put it back into the WD enclosure, but it is exactly the same, “Unallocated” under Disk Management.
I ran several scans using TestDisk, but it was unable to find partitions. I had WD Smartware installed, but I didn’t activate any encryption or passwords. The jumpers are at the factory setting (no jumper in use). Should the HDD work normally if I remove it from the enclosure? Or is it supposed to become unusable when you remove it?
Any drive that comes withSmartware is hardware encrpyted whether you installed the Smartware or not. This is done by the circuit board with the USB port on it. even if you got the data off in SATA it would be encrypted. Put it back in the enclosure and try running TestDisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk the partition data is probably corrupt this may repait it.
Thanks I was wondering what was going on here. My question was and I hope I’m not posting in the wrong area, Can Acronis True Image Home 2011 be use instead of Smartware so you can back up a complete Disk Image and create a rescue disk? Thanks TC
Yes you can use Acronis an do not Smartware. I use the Paid 2010 version. The best way to make the system image is to run from the Rescue CD. That launches a Linux app that doesn’t actually install. Then you don’t get any automatic updates or other things running in background to cause problems. I have my HD partitined System on one and Data on the other. You can relaod a system image in less than 15 min. Check out the Acronis forum Grover has a lot of helpful things posted.
