Ripped USB adapter on WD My Book interface

[muskeg]

Hi, I have this 2TB WD My Book (in fact, 2 of those) I'm trying to extract data from. Even if the owners say they didn't enable any kind of encryption I guess there's is this smartware hardware encryption thing going on because when I scan them (R-Studio), I only get what is flagged as text files and weird video files.

The problem mainly comes from the fact that the USB interfaces on these disks have been damaged and I can't use them to access the data. On one of the interfaces, the USB connector has been completely ripped off, damaging the part of the PCB that was under the connector. I haven't been able to solder a new connector on it.

Am I right thinking the disk is encrypted with the scan results I got? Is there hope to get the data back?

[Cleanroom]

it is encrypted. Find a matching USB-Sata bridge to the broken one and try that. The encryption is not unique and a new adapter may work. You might have to go through a couple tho.

[muskeg]

Thanks, I'm happy to read that. I happen to have a couple of those disks here (WD either have a huge market share or poor manufacturing/design habits!) so I will try. Do you know if the size of the disk is important or might have I some luck with say, a 1.5TB disk bridge on the 2TB drive?

Thanks again.

[harddriverecovery]

If it's going to work, it should work on any size drive.