reallymine
WD MyBook encrypted hard drive decryption (still WIP). (by andlabs)
linux-mybook-tools
tools for opening some encrypted WD My Book drives in linux (by themaddoctor)
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reallymine
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I have a western digital portable hardrive that I found which was my father’s unfortunately he has passed I’m looking to get into the hard drive but it has a password is there anyway to bypass it?
Maybe… but you will need a level of technical skill (or a friend that does). https://github.com/andlabs/reallymine
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WD Elements has broken USB pin, when I shucked it and used my USA SATA it is not not recognized and states I need to format
Many WD external drives are hardware encrypted by the USB bridge board. You should provide the model number printed on the enclosure label, as well as any model number + revision printed the USB bridge PCB for other users to assist you properly. If the drive is encrypted, your options are limited to either repairing the original USB bridge, purchasing an identical replacement, or depending on the controller chip reallymine may be able to decrypt it directly.
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A 3rd party PSU caused my external HDD to start smoking at the port. I unplugged immediately - can I open the enclosure and try putting the drive into another enclosure or is it gone?
Many WD drives have always-on encryption in the SATA bridge. Those can be decrypted with programs you can find on GitHub. Here and Here for example.
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How do I see the data from a 6TB HDD that I was using in a RAID 1 configuration (inside of a WD My Book Duo) in my desktop without formatting it?
Here's a thread about it.
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Filevault-encryped external drive won't mount (MacOS)
People might suggest you remove the drive from the housing, but be careful doing this. In addition to the encryption you applied yourself, many WD external drives have always-on encryption in the SATA USB bridge. If you remove the drive from that bridge the encryption will prevent you from reading the data on the drive. There is some software to undo this encryption, here and here for example.
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Recommend someone for data recovery?
Depending on what's under the hood (Passports all look the same but different generations have different chips inside), you could have a friend who has a bit of tech know-how give this tool a go: https://github.com/andlabs/reallymine - worth trying your luck
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Recovering a WDC WD20EADS - next steps?
Ideally, someone with first hand experience can just tell you. Alternatively, you can go down a rabbit hole and find ancient forum posts between shadowy figures discussing these things, and try to make a decision based off of that. But really, your best bet is to try them in order. First software tools (e.g. ReallyMine, which is free), and if that doesn’t work, buy a replacement bridge (which likely has to match the original in multiple ways to be compatible — without the original, chances of success are a lottery). If the data can be decrypted without the original bridge, these are the only two options that stand a chance of working. At most it costs as much as a spare drive / bridge (or a few, but don’t do that).
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recovering an old WD external drive
Either fix the original pcb or look into using something like reallymine https://github.com/andlabs/reallymine
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Help me with a WD MyBook Essential.
I'm trying to assist a friend of mine to recover his files from a WD MyBook Essential.The hard drive spins inside the case, but the computer won't see it. Unfortunately WD encrypt the hard drives, so even if I removed the drive from ⠀the case, I'm not able to read it with a SATA/USB adapter. I'm pretty sure it's a faulty controller, because sometimes, when I try to reconnect it, I can see the "MyDrive" partition, but I can't open it. I made it just once: the PC was reading the files, but unfortunately the connection was loose (I was trying to jiggle a little with the connector) and when it disconnected, I wasn't able to read the hard drive anymore. A friend of mine who had 2 empty MyBook Essential (because of shucking) gave me his controllers, but unfortunately the REV version is different, so they don't work with my hard drive.When I connect the hard drive whit these controllers, the PC always sees the hard drive but not the partition, and proposes me to initialize the disk (nope, thanks). I've read about reallymine (the hard drive is a JMicron, so it sould be supported) but it didn't worked (but maybe I did something wrong? I just tried the basic command "reallymine decrypt" with the drive connected with the SATA/USB adapter) What else should I try? Thank you in advance!
- WD MyBook - missing power board after PCB BIOS IC exchange
linux-mybook-tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of linux-mybook-tools.
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Full format for current pending sector is only a temp solution to get it back to 0 but the issue comes up later again, so im wondering would it be possible to make a separate partition of good sectors alone?so that for an 5tb hdd, 4.3 tb partition becomes reliable and the other one is never touched.
And WD stores the encryption key in plaintext on the drive - it's not hardware encryption on the drive - it's the controller chip inside the enclosure doing the encryption. Removing an encrypted drive and wiping it will make it usable in anything else again, but the data will be lost except if you use the utility i link below in linux. But even barring that, a diskpart clean will wipe the encrypted partitions (it's not ATA secure locked or SES encrypted, it's software on the drive enclosure's part) and make it usable. (Or a zero-pass wipe or any other external format tool if you're not comfortable using the commandline). That's why you can put it in a new enclosure of the same model and have it readable, because the key is stored in plain sight and the drive is still usable. If you have one that is already encrypted by the enclosure, you can use this utility to read data off of it without getting a new enclosure -> https://github.com/themaddoctor/linux-mybook-tools
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Plex Setup with Nvidia Shield TV Pro
In that case, you could just download the Linux tools and use the drive anywhere, following this: https://github.com/themaddoctor/linux-mybook-tools
- WD Elements 3TB recovery
- Help me with a WD MyBook Essential.
- WD MyBook - missing power board after PCB BIOS IC exchange
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WD My Book 4TB Not working.
There's also a Linux app that might work if you can't source the proper enclosure: https://github.com/themaddoctor/linux-mybook-tools
- Dead HDD, R-studio help
- Trying to recover data from decade plus old hard drive
- Next step? How to recover data from a multiple filesystem partition Disk?
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Multiple bay enclosure help needed
Ye the encryption on the mybook is a relatively rare thing and not something you're gonna see on separately purchased plain enclosures, there are tools to break it https://github.com/themaddoctor/linux-mybook-tools
What are some alternatives?
When comparing reallymine and linux-mybook-tools you can also consider the following projects:
WD-Decrypte - Western Digital Decryption tools