#Wd my book essential 1tb virtual cd how to
I want to know how to recapture the original data. My essential got locked without my permission. Their new ones are cheaper, but they come pre-formatted for either PC or Macbook. I haven't bought one yet because I fear they're less versatile. The greyed out area on the disk utility says my WD Passport is I'm afraid they may not be readily changeable to a format Ms-Dos (FAT), the interchangeable format I use to move common file ending files back and forth between PCs and Macs.
#Wd my book essential 1tb virtual cd mac os
Mac OS Extended (journaled), whatever that means. I want to restore this disk for interchangeable use of common file ending files between PCs and Macs.I have a Mybook Essential Western Digital external hard drive. For some reason I cannot unlock the drive, even though I am quite sure about the password I use but it says the password is invalid. I tried to get the drive out of the USB enclosure and it turned out the drive inside the enclosure is just a 1TB WD caviar green WD10EADS. I tried to check whether the drive is locked or not, so I connected it directly via a SATA cable to the PC. Using mhdd I could not see the disk is locked so I did a stupid thing that I locked it then unlocked it again.
When I tried to connect it via the USB enclosure again I noticed that when the drive prompts for the password the password hint does not exist anymore, so my guess is that the password section was overwritten. My conclusion is that the USB controller encodes/encrypts all the data written to the drive so it is not possible to retrieve that data without bypassing the USB controller. But at the same time the password to lock the drive is not used to encrypt the data so this means at least in theory it should be possible to reset that password at least to a known password value.
I replaced that sector with another sector that I got after unlocking the drive, I got the drive unlocked but I cannot see my data. I would try again but with a sector with locking information for which I know the password. When you replaced those sector you are not just removed the password request, you have changed whole decrypting key.ĭon't work with pacient drive not to spoil something.ĭid you bought new same enclouser for this game? I noticed that that data are encrypted in 16 bytes blocks. Now you are working "arsy-versy", think more and widely. OK DR, that is what I have discovered and mentioned in the previous post so every time you reset the password (by formatting) a new key is generated. I compared the VCD of some locked/unlocked states and found only 448 bytes of one sector that change, as I showed in the previous post. Wd my book essential 1tb reset password#.