Wd 10eavs external driver

My MyBook packed up after rather stupidly plugging it into a macbook i use windows , and i think it corrupted something somewhere…so was just hoping maybe a reset will fix this? Thanks so much for the opening tip. I can now try to retrive my data through another PC connection. Appreciate it Frank. It seems to have a bad power board inside the enclosure. Is the 3TB a sata drive? Starting to lose faith in WD, like I have with Seagate the past 5 years.

USB 3. Does anyone have any experience with the newer USB 3. But the drive itself seems to have hardware encryption to prevent it from being used outside of the WD enclosure. It works fine once you put it back in the WD enclosure. Does anyone know how to defeat this?

Jay, I think what you are experiencing is a drive that is encrypted by the enclosure. It should be a standard drive, but it is encrypted by the enclosure. The only way to use the drive outside the enclosure is to reformat it. The enclosure most likely will auto-encrypt any drive placed into it, requiring a reformat to function properly. Thanks so much for this! It was a big help! While transferring data from our pc to the My Book, the usb port snapped clean off.

We bought another one — same model except it is 1 TB. I swapped out the hard drives, but neither my pc nor my Wii will recognize it. Any suggestions, anyone? Dana, it could be that there is hardware encryption that is specific to each enclosure and can only be read when connected to the original enclosure. You could try the external Thermaltak Dock to confirm, but you are likely to get the same result. Can you tell if this sounds like a controller or drive failure? Is this a candidate for the Thermaltake dock?

Brian, it sounds like a drive failure, but there is no way to know for certain until you test the drive and enclosure separately. It took me a while to get the case open, but I was able to do so finally without breaking anything, I think … the tabs were not at all cooperative.

Thanks for the great writeup and pics. It made opening the case relatively easy. I reinstalled the drivers, but I keep getting a device cannot start code 10 error. Any ideas? It sounds like the drive and enclosure are incompatible.

You should try testing the drive outside the enclosure connected directly to a desktop computer SATA controller or another external controller. Thanks for your help. It all works great now. Thanks again. Today I was told by WD support that the drive is in a Linux format so unreadable by a standard windows machine. I have already ordered a BlacX Docking Station hoping to retrieve my data but now worried that I may not be able to use it now.

Is it normal? I left it 4 days without power and on the 5th day i got it work again. But now it seems to be dead. Based on 8, user benchmarks. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list. Strengths Avg. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the WD My Book 1TB performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions. Weaknesses Avg. Average Bench Based on 8, samples. Rank NOR-User, 23 hrs ago.

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Thanks for the heads up Rick. Sunday, April 3, AM. PS: » Initializing WD hard drive will lead to data loss. If your hard drive is in such a case, you can assign drive letter to it or change its drive letter. You can employ this way if your WD hard drive was previously formatted with an unrecognized file system under windows or there are corrupted files on it. You are certain to format WD hard drive using Disk Management. However, this Windows built-in tool is with some limits.

Therefore, it is recommended to apply the powerful disk formatting tool — AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard , which breaks the limit of 32GB in partition size and offers you more options about file system.