STOP!
Sorry for shouting, but if you want to have a chance to get your data back, please stop what you are doing. I hate to say it, but most of the advice given here so far is dangerously clueless/wrong. Also, formatting your drive will NOT improve your situation, don't do it!
And whatever you do, never ever just randomly use "tools" on your original drive that you want to rescue, especially if you don't know exactly what you are doing. ALWAYS make a sector image (i.e. DD) of the HDD and only work on that copy!
In regards to your problem: Have a look here (which is a better place for data recovery question), this seems to adress exactly your problem:
Western Digital MyBook essential data recovery : Hard Disk Drives: data recovery and repair
Good luck!
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 like if I can get the USB detached and soldered back on I can re-attach and copy off data?
The Circuit board (PCB) still turns on fine, I plugged it up and the lights come on and everything, it's just the USB connector that's messed up.
Can anyone tell me what to do next?
edit: pics of board: WD - Imgur the drive slides directly into the SATA slot on the pcb.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8