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themaddoctor / linux-mybook-tools

tools for opening some encrypted WD My Book drives in linux
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Trying to decrypt MyBook Essential 2TB JMS538S please help #64

Open gorkid opened 3 years ago

gorkid commented 3 years ago

Hi Thomas, thank you for your great work.
I need your help, will appreciate if you'd take a look and tell if there's a hope in my case. The drive is 2TB My Book Essential WD20EARS-00MVWB0 with Micron JMS538S, built in 2011. I'm in the same boat as thousands of "lucky" WD owners. The drive was barely used, just loaded with family photo archives and left alone for ~10 years. Tried to access it recently and it wouldn't open. Then, of course, I took it out of enclosure and connected to Windows, got the usual RAW/unallocated/Initialize message - which I declined, but then tried to read it with WD and other "recovery" tools all of which failed. Only then I read your forum posts and found out of the dreaded WD silent encryption.

Trying to follow your guide, drive out of enclosure/ connected directly to SATA, using live persistent USB with Ubuntu 20.04, but got stuck right at the beginning. Ubuntu sees the drive as /dev/sdd , but when i enter
sudo file -s /dev/sdd it does nothing, just intermittently blinking cursor SATA lsblk nano file -s 2021-02-04 22-21-41

the same when i try sudo dd if=/dev/sdd skip=2048 count=1 status=none | hexdump SATA lsblk dd 2021-01-25 01-11-07

or your script, - just the cursor sitting on the next line SATA script 2021-02-04 22-46-37

Also, tried putting it back into original enclosure and pluggin to Ubuntu. It appeared but as unallocated and with input/output errors, I'm assuming because of encrytpion.

PCB discks 2021-02-05 03-06-33 sudo file -s /dev/sdd (with enclosure) PCB lsblk file -s from 2021-02-05 03-12-42 parted -l (with enclosure) PCB parted -l 2021-02-05 03-16-13 gparted (with enclosure) PCB gparted 2021-02-05 03-18-57 PCB gparted i-o error 2021-02-05 03-19-32 PCB gparted - no files 2021-02-05 03-45-16

Thank you in advance for any help.

themaddoctor commented 3 years ago

If the disk has been unused for 10 years, you might try tapping on it to loosen the axis. Maybe it's stuck. You can usually hear or feel if it is spinning.

Take the disk out of the enclosure. The enclosure is not your friend. Neither is Windows.

Unless you can get sudo dd if=/dev/sdd count=1 | hexdump -C to give you some output, there is nothing I can do.

gorkid commented 3 years ago

The disk is spinning normally, no clicking. Yes, as I mentioned above, it's out of enclosure, connected directly to sata. But as you can see in pics , file or dd commands just causing cursor moved to next line doing nothing. Any idea what can be wrong, or else can I try? Thank you for your efforts.

themaddoctor commented 3 years ago

You could try a different SATA cable or a different port. It sounds like a hardware problem, which is not something I can help with.