WD MyBook/MyPassport Decryption Tool

[Fraser Corrance]

I wanted to share an experience I recently had performing a data recovery in hopes that it may be helpful and save folks some time and some of the frustration I experienced with this project.

I had a client who brought me a drive from a 4 TB WD MyBook for data recovery. When the drive stopped mounting the client removed the drive from the enclosure and trashed the enclosure. I had been trying to decrypt the drive using ReallyMine but for some reason the decryption process has been very slow going. The source drive was beginning to fail so I made a sector by sector clone of the drive and attempted to decrypt it but after 5 days I only had 80 GB of the 4 TB drive decrypted. I also made an image of the failing drive using DDRescue and tried running ReallyMine on the .IMG file and got the same result. I also tried using ReallyMine on multiple different workstation with different hardware and using different Linux Distros....same results. I messaged the developer of ReallyMine through GitHub and he was also stumped as to why the process was running so slow.

I started a thread on HDDOracle.com (another EXCELLENT data recovery forum that is well worth checking out!) asking if anyone had run into this issue. Spildit, the moderator of this forum, recommended that I talk to Roberto on HDDGuru.com about trying to use his tool to decrypt the drive.

Roberto's tool was able to decrypt the drive in a couple days and all of my client's data was recovered flawlessly!

Here is some more info on it:

http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35048&p=244877#p244877

Fraser

[Philip Shaw]

Sounds interesting, but the PC3K will give you the folder structure on the same drive in about two minutes. It is worth the investment.

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[Skyclad]

I agree 100%

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[Fraser Corrance]

I do plan on picking up a PC3K but It is going to be another couple months until I have the budget to pick up a PC3K. I just think it's a cool and affordable option for those who don't have one and need an affordable option in a bind. 

I am all about them gadgets and cool tricks of the trade. ;-)

Fraser