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I contacted a data recovery company and they said that the encryption key is in embedded in the reserve cylinders of the media, and that I didn't need the enclosure. The enclosure is dead and gone, anyway.

Thanks for the information. It will be expensive, but the data will at least be recovered.

Is the encryption the same across all WD drives, or can I just go buy another one and put this drive in that (new) enclosure?

By the way, I'm sorry I took so long to reply to your reply - every time I looked it showed that there was no response, until today!

Thanks for responding.

The computer is Windows. Not MAC. The USB enclosure for whatever reason smoked, and so wouldn't work anymore. I've got the drive out of it, and it is hooked in directly via SATA cable. Windows sees it as unallocated, meaning that there is no partition on it, or at least ...

I read on another post that the Western Digital MyBook USB drives are encrypted to their interface. Is this true?
If the enclosure should fail, does that mean that the data on the drive becomes inaccessible? Could I just buy another one and swap out the drive and then be able to access the data?

I have a problem, and I don't understand what tesdisk is showing me. I have a 2tb drive that somehow lost its partition(s) when the USB enclosure it was in smoked. It is from a Western Digital MyBook backup drive.

It had data on it. I'm not sure what type of partition it had, whether MBR or GPT ...