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I agree that Metro should be optional, and they need to bring the start menu back, that's a necessity. First thing I did when I installed Windows 8 was remove Metro and add back the start menu. On tablets, Metro is fine, on Desktops/laptops where you need to be productive, it's a huge hindrance.

Guys, I finally got it fixed, my circuit board came in after about a month and a half from China. about my External Hard Drive that was showing up as Unallocated when the connector broke and I plugged it directly into my PC.. ..After several hours of trying to recover and digging, and help...

Okay, I found the drive on eBay for $140, I'll buy that and when it comes in and I test it I'll report back. I can't think of a single situation where " hardware encryption" wound be useful to the customer unless we get to set the password, after calling Western Digital multiple times and...

Even if they have that PCB available, how would I decrypt the drive with it? Edit: I just contacted western digital, they don't even sell the parts, every time I call they keep trying to refer me to data recovery companies, I would be willing to buy the same model drive again just to get the...

I tried using an adapter even from another wd drive, but it still shows up as unallocated, I read online the usb adapter has encryption and I need to use the same adapter

The usb interface has encryption keys that make it impossible to read the data unless through the usb, I already tried connecting it directly to my MB and it showed up as unallocated, my problem is the mini USB on the circuit board broke off, it still receives power if I plug it into the drive...

I don't know how to solder anything. Are there any places I could take it like Lowes or any online places? Or, would it be possible to connect the drive to the PCB but using a splitter and with a separate cord connect it to the computer? Because when I plug it in to the PCB I hear the drive...

Okay, so the drive is apparently encrypted and will only be unencrypted if I can get it hooked up back to the original PCB, only problem is the USB connector fell off.. Last night I tried glueing it back on like an idiot, it glued but still won't recognize the HDD connected to it... So it looks...

Well good old Windows updated and restarted during my scan, so I went ahead and tried repairing the sata to usb connector, I couldn't but I cracked open another wd drive and borrowed that part, it still showed up as unallocated. What does that mean exactly? Unallocated I mean, does it mean...

No, I the paid version, and I'm going to use an enclosure from another drive after I try one other method (a guide from sevenforums).

I'm gonna try one last scan, if that fails then I'm gonna take apart another WD drive and put this one in it. this is nuts, there was nothing wrong with the drive,just the SATA to USB adapter.

Just finished scanning, It discovered a whopping 271 files, and I've never even seen half of them, others are just stock windows photos (such as: http://i.imgur.com/5J9Aq.png ), please, you have no idea how much this is bothering me, I have irreplaceable files on that hard drive.. I know I...

Thank you for the reassurance, here's a screenshot I just took : imgur: the simple image sharer I noticed it's saying it scanned FAT folders/files, my HDD was NTFS formatted, will this make a difference?

I'm using MiniTools, so far it's 7% done (took 2 hours, says 29 hours remaining, not a problem though) but what worries me is it says so far it's only found 21 files... now I had thousands of pictures, hundreds of movies, games, documents, etc.. And after 7% only finding 21 files..

Thanks guys, I tried a different tool with no success, I'll try the ones posted here and report back. I have two 1TB HDD's that I'll be migrating my files over to, and I will then immediately get another 2TB HDD and use a RAID level, I'll never let this happen again.

I have a 2TB Western Digital My Book Essentials, it's filled with tons of old photos, movies, docs, games, and I'm scared to think of what else. The SATA to USB connector broke on it, so I took the drive apart and put it inside my computer. I opened up device manager because it wasn't showing up...

THANK YOU!! This solves 1 of my problem, now does anyone know how to boot from USB device in Windows 8? edit: By unplugging and replugging my computer, I got it to load into boot menu, thank you!

I connected my drive to SATA, Windows 8 wouldn't recognize it, I tried booting from a USB into Linux, Windows 8 wouldn't allow it No, please link me to instructions on how to do this, or tell me here? sent from my android phone

No, I plugged it up with the SATA II and the power cable inside the tower, and I was somehow able to boot a diagnostics tool or something on HP and it showed there were 2 1TB HDD's hooked up, it's definitely in and being detected (by everything but Windows 8 it seems)

And please forgive me if I seem too angry, I'm just discouraged.