My Western Digital My Book 500GB drive enclosure has failed. I've pulled both drives from the enclosure and have connected them by a USB SATA connector to my Windows 7 computer. The drives are recognized by Disk Management but Explorer is not an option (grayed out).
How can I access these drives?
The WD 1G that I've owned, assuming the 500G is the same, had a block of data before the actual drive started. Under Windows, I'm not sure how to skip over the first 512b of a drive. Find a computer using Linux, the losetup command for making a virtual disk, skipping over the first 512b of firmware.
Beyond that, the drive didn't seem to affect the data on the drive, just moved everything up 1 block.
