Unable to Recover Data in WD 2TB External Device

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Manivannan22

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Hi,

I have a 2TB External WD Harddisk. Few days back I removed the external case of the hard disk and connect the hard disk as internal Hard disk with the SATA Port.

In the Disk Management I can see the disk as unallocated. Mistakenly I formated the disk too. Now am trying to recover the data by connecting as a internal SATA drive using some of the recovery tools like stellar phoenix, Active Partition Recovery and some other tools. But unable to recover the files.

Can someone advise how to recover my files. Its almost 1.6TB of data


Manivannan
 
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Phillip Corcoran

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Zero Assumption Recovery will often rescue files that other recovery software has not been able to, but it's not free so it depends just how valuable that data is to you: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/

I have to advise you that saving your data on just one drive is not very wise.
 
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Manivannan22

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My drive is a 2TB External WD my Book, Now I have connected as a Internal HDD with SATA port directly...

Do u want me to connect as a external HDD and further run the scan with the recovery tool?

@Phillip

I ran ZAR but unable to recover the files, the scan results shows nothing


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It´s more of a hardware encryption.

Since I am/was planning on using my external WD HDD as internal, too, I did a little googling on this subject. But since I am nowhere near a pro when it comes to this, don´t take the following as granted:
WD seems to implement some sort of hardware encryption into the USB/SATA controller of their external HDDs. Which is actually pretty cool when you think about. However, it makes using the HDD as an internal one pretty difficult and probably impossible. I´ve only of a handful of guys who managed to use their external drives as internal ones after performing a low level format and some other stuff while still using it external.
Also, some reported that their HDDs weren´t encrypted. For some unknown reason.
 
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fzabkar

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My Book Essentials models are encrypted, whereas My Book Elements are not.

It is easy to see whether your drive is encrypted simply by comparing the contents of sector 0 when the drive is inside and outside the enclosure.

Also, sector 1 will show zeros in one case and a repeating pattern of 16 bytes in the other.

You could use a disc editor such as DMDE (freeware) for this purpose.
 
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