I've attached a 500 GB hard drive (WD5000AAKS-22V1A0) to the MyBook usb controller of this 8TB helium drive.
I'm using the original MyBook power supply, once i attach the usb data cable to PC usb port the hard drive spins and is detect in device management as with name
(WD My Book 25DAUSB Device).Device management also loads WD SES drivers.
I can't access to user area on normal hdd attached to this controller as we expected before, this due to the particular behaving of this type of controller.
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I attached this 500 GB WD drive just for testing if the usb controller could work without damaging the hdd pcb, now that i'm sure it doesn't kill the pcb, i can attach the original WD80EZZX-11CSGA0 hard drive.
Unfortunately, original drive is detect exactly in the same way and i still don't have access to user area.
When i open R-Studio with WD80EZZX-11CSGA0 drive attached to this controller, it detects it as the same 500 GB hdd that i used for testing previously (with its identical serial number).
I'm thinking the eprom of this usb controller records informations of wrong attacked hard drive and somehow locks permission of identifying the original drive.
Do i have to remove eprom from usb controller in this scenario?
Any other suggestions for access again to user data?