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Help recovering data from WD My Book [WDBBGB0080HBK-NA]
Well, my WD My Book (which I had for over 6 years I think) died and now I'm trying to recover the data inside it.
WD Drive Utilities reported SMART failed.
Tried to follow on the advice on Best approach to restore or recover 4TB WD My Book external HDD? but couldn't really work...
Can't remember if it was exFAT or NTFS or MBR or GPT....
Win 11 Disk Management showed as MBR and unallocated and I am unable to initialize it
Hard Disk Sentinel Trial came up as blank
Bootice stopped scanning almost immediately (stopped at sector 16 I think)
Tried this advice using Stellar Data Recovery and it couldn't find the files after 6-8 hours of scanning.
Running Minitool Partition Wizard...nothing coming out on preview....think I'll stop the scan as it seems hopeless
So I assume I would need to go to a WD Data Recovery shop to get the data out because of the hardware encryption?
Last edited by hemholtz; 09 Mar 2024 at 19:04.