WD My Studio zero partitions

[buster80]

1TB WD10EADS

DDI no probs (reverse to be safe)

no partition info in Rstudio/UFS

data visible in winhex - unpartitioned space

not encrypted apparently

firmware prob?

ta

andy

[microsoftengineer]

is it External Drive if yes then check External casing Board it might Encrypted.

[Vulcan]

@buster80: I agree with microsoftengineer that one possible (likely?) reason for the behaviour you describe, is that there is more to this story...

Here are some brief specific questions:

1TB WD10EADS

What's the history of the drive? Where did it come from (enclosure or not)? What's the original reported fault?

no partition info in Rstudio/UFS

What does LBA 0 actually look like? Recognisable MBR code or not?

What does LBA 1 look like? All zeros? Or a repeating 16 byte pattern? Or something else?

data visible in winhex - unpartitioned space

But is it recognisable data (text / jpg / etc.)? Or does it appear to be random (and therefore possibly encrypted)?

not encrypted apparently

What leads you to that conclusion?

You might find this thread interesting, if it turns out that this drive is from an encrypted enclosure, as it shows some of the behaviour you seem to be reporting e.g. no valid partiton table on the bare drive (because it's encrypted by the enclosure):
http://forum.hddguru.com/disk-with-sata-usb-adapter-remove-virtual-rom-t18492-20.html

[buster80]

yea looks encrypted, getting the original caddy in 1 hour

thanks for all your help

andy

Or a repeating 16 byte pattern?

bingo, cheers vulcan

p.s u too pcimage

[pcimage]

No problem

[pcimage]

No problem

[chinopk]

this is the beauty of this forum.

[buster80]

True that

[pcimage]

You get it sorted?

[buster80]

Works in the case, stays mounted few seconds. Going to look at it again AM

[ddd123]

Drive is sure crypted

[buster80]

yip, worked in the case. Not that bad, r-studio did the trick