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?

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...

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Thought so... thanks anyway

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