Thanks to anyone reading this, and all comments are appreciated but I'm going to consider the drive basically a write-off at this point and will just reformat/repartition and re-use it as a data disk.
#My book essential 1tb data recovery software
Research suggests the drive is theoretically decryptable via software as I never set a password on it, but the effort required involving Linux may be beyond what I'm willing to put in. [ EDIT: From Zorb750's comment it looks like what I was unaware of until today is that the drive is actually encrypted at the hardware level. Will I have better odds if I initialize the disk and then re-run TestDisk? Or should I choose another utility? The data is not critical enough for me to need to pay for a recovery, but it is important enough that I can afford to take a few hours or even a day to attempt data recovery. TestDisk can see the drive as well and I currently have it trying to see any partition data but no luck (37% as of the time of writing). Recently my 3TB WD My Book gave up and would not power on, this is how I managed to rescue all of my 2.9TB of data despite WDs hardware encryption. Not wanting to risk losing more data I have not done that, but it remains visible in Disk Manager as an uninitialized volume. After removing the hard drive from its enclosure and plugging it in via SATA port, drive detected as raw. Situation: USB port on Western Digital My Book broke. Drive Model: Western Digital WD10EADS-22M2B0.
#My book essential 1tb data recovery windows
Windows Disk Manager can "see" the drive but wants to initialize it first. WD My Book Data Recovery Case Study: Raw Hard Drive Recovery. I do not know/recall if the drive was formatted as MBR or GPT, but being as it's ten years old (not heavily used, incidentally - I mostly let it sit idle for about 8-9 years in total) I would lean to NTFS over FAT32. Given this, I decided to bust open the USB case (the thing is long beyond warranty, being from 2011) and extract the drive itself to plug into a USB3 SATA external caddy. As the title indicates, I had a WD MyBook external drive with (unknown to me until too late) a badly soldered USB connection to the PCB with the SATA connectors.
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