Hi!

I have a very big trouble regarding a WD MyBook Essential 1TB drive. I try to be as short as possible but give you any possible info, maybe you are able to help me. A monitoring software (HDSentinel) recognised, that there are some current pending sectors, so I decided to make a backup as soon as possible to avoid dataloss. So I shutdown properly and the next they it did not start, instead it wanted that I should format it. I tried another usb ports nothing. So I decided to take out from the case and connect it into PC directly. Windows Explorer did not recognise it only disk management but it told me its empty and raw. There are ca. 850GB of mainly music files, so its definitely not empty (I hope at least).
I use Win7, the drive was used only for datastorage, one partition. I have tried already R-Studio, UFS Explorer. The problem is, for ex. UFS can not find even the file system superblock (if there should be one, i don't know), so I could not recover the partition yet.
Both of them recognised the SmartWare installation virtual CD in a hidden partition, but not the another one with the datafiles.

What do you suggest? Should I use quickformat with NTFS? Or do MyBook has some special features because of this hidden partition and thats why I cant recover the partition with the simple "click and next" button?

Вже неоднаразово про це писали, потрібно було спробувати пошукати.

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Angel Data Recovery

Sorry I can speak only english or german. Probably, you mean the encryption funkction. I did not use this setting. Or is it encrypted by default?

Yes, thats right.

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Angel Data Recovery

thanks for the prompt reply.


thats s*cks. is there any solution to get acces to my files through internal sata connection?

The data are hardware-encrypted -- the INIC1607E (?) chip on the USB-SATA bridge board handles the encryption. This happens regardless of whether you have set any password.

You need to perform a sector-to-sector clone of your drive via USB, while it is attached to the bridge board, using cloning software that understands how to work around bad sectors. Then use data recovery software on your clone.

ddrescue and dd_rescue are two Linux based utilities that can clone a drive in multiple passes. They image the easy sectors on the first pass, and attempt the more difficult ones on subsequent passes. They can also image a drive in reverse. Reverse imaging effectively disables look ahead caching.

ddrescue: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
dd_rescue: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

Comparison between ddrescue and dd_rescue:
http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue

HDClone is a Windows based imager:
http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html

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