WD MyBook Essential 2TB - Decryption

[vogerl]

Hi,

last week I bought a new USB RAID Enclosure to put all my external HDs in one enclosure. When I put in my MyBook Essentials HD it didn't show up in Windows Explorer.

I found out that the drive itself is automatically encrypted. Is there a way of decrypting it? I figure, I could just copy all the data to another drive, format the WD Disk inside the new enclosure, and copy the data back. The problem is, that I don't have another disk at hand and don't want to by one with the current hard drive prices. Is there another possibility?

[northwind]

Is there another possibility?

I'm afraid not.

Also, putting all your drives in one enclosure might be handy, but if the box suffers a power surge, or if you accidently drop the box...

[vogerl]

Is there another possibility?

I'm afraid not.

Also, putting all your drives in one enclosure might be handy, but if the box suffers a power surge, or if you accidently drop the box...

Thought so... thanks anyway

[fademan]

Hi guys,

Is this possible, to re-format a WD mybook essentials drive to be used in a NAS? I have 2x 2TB, and a 1x 3TB, and will soon want to move them all onto a NAS.

I'm happy to purchase a drive to hold the data temporarily...just need to know if I can re-use these drives in a NAS when the time comes?

[loki]

Hi guys,

Is this possible, to re-format a WD mybook essentials drive to be used in a NAS? I have 2x 2TB, and a 1x 3TB, and will soon want to move them all onto a NAS.

I'm happy to purchase a drive to hold the data temporarily...just need to know if I can re-use these drives in a NAS when the time comes?

Yes you can do that.
Just back up data first to another drive then remove the My Book drive from its enclosure & attach it to your pc & then format it.

Loki