With HDs this size and higher, that tends to cost thousands of $$$, so, this seems rather shortsighted by WD. It seems the only thing this does is make sending these drives to professional recovery services mandatory. Why is WD automatically doing this without the consent of the user? There is a encryption key that seems to be stored in a EEPROM chip most likely on the USB PCB, and I haven't seen any tools that could decrypt it.įunny enough, I just saw a press release from ACE recovery saying that can now crack this encryption of these units. Looking online, it seems that WD is doing this to "protect your data", even if you didn't ask for said data to be encrypted to make it impossible to recover any info in case of disaster. I asked him if he ever set any password, and he said no, he just plugged it in, and starting writing data to it. That did work, the HD is seen, however, the data seems to be encrypted. A friend has a 4TB My book external drive, and his 2 year old managed to damage the unit from working.Īnyway, I was over there trying to help him get his data back, and opened up his case (it was out of warranty), and attempted to plug the HD into another machine I brought with me.
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