Thank you again, everyone. I am in Southeastern Pennsylvania, United States. Any referrals - even to your own interests - are welcome, provided that doesn't violate forum rules. Also, I have some more information: (1) I obtained an identical unit, WD MyBook 3.0 TB, with the same ASMEDIA ASM1051W chi...

Hello everyone, I have a 3TB Western Digital MyBook drive that suddenly stopped being recognized. This has the awful WD USB PCB that's required in order to see the filesystem because of the block size translation. It has the ASM1051W chip, which, I understand, actually does NOT encrypt the drive. Ho...