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I have a WD MyBook Essential 3TB that stopped being recognized in every computer. But the HDD seems fine. I disassembled it and got it out of the WD case, now I have a WD30EZRS HDD but it is encrypted.

I KNOW the password used to encrypt, but need to know how or if there is some way / software that can use to read the data inside.

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might be too late for you, but for future people with this issue - yes, replacing that board should have worked just fine, as the password is actually stored on a "secret" sector of the hard disk itself. If this is the board was what actually failed, replacing it should make you right as rain. On a side note - even if you had not set a password, these controllers encrypt the data 100% of the time no matter what - but only ask for a password if you have one set. If there is no password set, it simply automatically decrypts the data for you.

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