A few months ago my dad was having issues with his WD My Book and was unable to access his data (mostly pictures) with no backup in place. We've since set up backups to ensure no further loss of data, you could say we learned our lesson. Going back to the WD My Book, I connected the drive to his PC and as I have seen previously the drive was not reading and Disk Manager was indicating the drive was not formatted. At the time I was not aware that the My Book had some sort of encryption/scrambling of the data to deter access in the event that the drive was compromised.
In the effort of attempting to recover the data from the drive, I attempted several data recovery software but came up empty-handed each time. After some discussion and deliberation, my dad finally decided that it was maybe not worth spending the money to attempt recovering the pictures. A solution that I was hoping would work was to do a quick format to NTFS to make the drive readable while also hoping that it would permit the data recovery software a better chance at recovering the data. I still came up empty handed with quick scans. After running a deep scan (10+ hours) it finally came up with a Raw Data file with a bunch of folders with different "file types" but clearly not useable data but the total size of files matches what was previously stored on the drive.
With this being said, I am wondering what the chances of recovering this data are? Are there any programs that can attempt to decrypt/de-scramble the data?
On a similar forum someone was able to take the data from one disk and put it on the same type of disk and re-insert it to the drive and was successful in decrypting it that way. Since I did the quick format, did I erase any chance at potentially putting the data back? Or could I go into the disk manager, 'delete' the drive, swap the drive and recover the data that way?
Any assistance will be much appreciated!
In the effort of attempting to recover the data from the drive, I attempted several data recovery software but came up empty-handed each time. After some discussion and deliberation, my dad finally decided that it was maybe not worth spending the money to attempt recovering the pictures. A solution that I was hoping would work was to do a quick format to NTFS to make the drive readable while also hoping that it would permit the data recovery software a better chance at recovering the data. I still came up empty handed with quick scans. After running a deep scan (10+ hours) it finally came up with a Raw Data file with a bunch of folders with different "file types" but clearly not useable data but the total size of files matches what was previously stored on the drive.
With this being said, I am wondering what the chances of recovering this data are? Are there any programs that can attempt to decrypt/de-scramble the data?
On a similar forum someone was able to take the data from one disk and put it on the same type of disk and re-insert it to the drive and was successful in decrypting it that way. Since I did the quick format, did I erase any chance at potentially putting the data back? Or could I go into the disk manager, 'delete' the drive, swap the drive and recover the data that way?
Any assistance will be much appreciated!
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