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After looking at the specs in detail, it does appear that the hard drive enclosure did have hardware encryption.

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/7318102/art/western-digital/my-book-essential-3-tb-ex.html#pix-review

I didn't even think about that! I didn't put any password encryption on though.

Is ...

It was used before externally as a western digital my essential 3tb.

The hard drive wouldn't turn on automatically when connecting the usb cable in it, even when I turned it on from the back it still wouldn't even recognise it in disk management.

I opened the enclosure to just get the hard drive ...

Yea sorry about that!

Yes I will upload a screen shot from disk management. Analaysing the hard drive takes a long time, im using a sata power adaptor to USB 2.0 should I just connect it in my pc, would this speed up the analysing process?

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could help me navigate through testdisk.

I have done quick search and deeper search but it does not bring up any partitions.

When I connect this drive to the computer it doesn't come up on my computer, but shows up on disk management stating the drive is not ...