Please advice to recover all partition files.

[Klemper]

On 1/22/2025 at 7:26 PM, D.Draker said:

How to disassemble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuhT6fo7GsY

I did the same with my Book in 2018, it was a Red Drive inside.

[Cixert]

On 1/22/2025 at 7:23 PM, D.Draker said:

Look for topics like this, often posted on Reddit, too.

https://community.wd.com/t/what-kind-of-hard-drive-is-inside-my-book-wd-elements-desktop-8tb/235378

or this

https://forums.sandisk.com/t/which-drives-are-inside-the-wd-8tb-my-book-desktop/264819

Thanks, I intend to use it as an external drive in Windows XP, since I'm noticing that the WD_Quick_Formatter application doesn't work with hard disks removed from the box and this application is necessary to move the logical sector from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes so that it works in XP.
In your links I see that My Book has hardware encryption and Essential doesn't.
But does My Book Essential have it?
I don't want any encryption, I don't have secret files.

Regarding the trick of removing the disk from the box, it's something I've always thought about, but manufacturers have also thought that we can do it.
So they are putting hard drives with less cache memory than SATA ones. For example, I have tested it with Toshiba Canvio

Edited Friday at 01:22 AM by Cixert

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, Cixert said:

So they are putting hard drives with less cache memory than SATA ones. For example, I have tested it with Toshiba Canvio

Not sure about Toshiba, I always counted them budget, with WD I had the same cache size.

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, Cixert said:

But does My Book Essential have it?

Yes, and here's they ask how to decrypt it.

https://superuser.com/questions/482645/how-to-decrypt-a-disassembled-wd-mybook-essential-hdd

 

[D.Draker]

I compared the extracted WD HDD from My booksplastic box, which I wrote about before, and it's identical to the famous Red Series (NAS drives). WD80EFZZ, ir was still produced, at least in 2022.

The only difference is the label, mine is white, without the red stripes. It's 100% made by Hitachi.

 

[Karla Sleutel]

On 1/31/2025 at 2:57 AM, D.Draker said:

I compared the extracted WD HDD from My booksplastic box, which I wrote about before, and it's identical to the famous Red Series (NAS drives). WD80EFZZ, ir was still produced, at least in 2022.

The only difference is the label, mine is white, without the red stripes. It's 100% made by Hitachi.

 

Right, it looks absolutely different from the standard WD Red platform that they produce themselves. I own a WD40EFRX, I can tell.

This one is indeed made by Hitachi, just look at the air breather. A classic Hitachi breather