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Some WD drive products (drive combined with enclosures) are using encryption.
I have no clue which mechanism makes them output unencrypted data.

Therefore it might be worth trying to run Photorec with the drive begin in its original setting - inside the original enclosure using the USB interface ...

Some WD drive products (drive combined with enclosures) are using encryption.
I have no clue which mechanism makes them output unencrypted data.

Therefore it might be worth trying to run Photorec with the drive begin in its original setting - inside the original enclosure using the USB interface ...

cgrenier wrote: 30 Oct 2020, 20:42 It may be interesting to run PhotoRec during 10 minutes to see if some valid files are recovered or not.

I ran it for 2 hours and it came back with 2 large swf files, no idea what they are.

If your posting means yes, please explain if you put a WD drive in an enclosure or if you are refering to an assembled WD product containing enclosure and drive inside like WD Elemente, pe.e.


It is sold as WD MyBook which is drive inside of an enclosure, I popped open the enclosure and ...

That is how it was tested and shown in the above screenshots. Direct connection via SATA.

So no help or suggestions?

It finished sometime today after running for almost 4 full days.

This is what it shows:

https://i.imgur.com/rydat5Z.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/f6XEbxB.jpg

This was a GPT NTFS partition that was taking up the entire 3TB drive.... Previous screen said "3000GB seems too small"... This has never ...

I have a 3TB WD HDD that was in an external enclosure using USB 3.0, and when trying to back it up to a new 4TB HDD, a sketchy PCIe USB card caused repeated USB disconnection anytime there was any load placed on it, then finally a few days ago the partition was no longer visible. Diskmgmt sees an ...