MacBook Pro problems reading Western Digital HDD in docking station

[crosseyedbum]

I have a Western Digital HDD (1 TB, SATA / 32 MB, WD10EADS, 3.5"). A power surge destroyed the My Book power supply system that came with the drive. The drive still works, and is in tact. I have removed the drive from the My Book casing. This is the drive that I have used with my MacBook Pro for years as a data storage and back up. It is formatted in Mac OS Journaled.

I have purchased an Insignia HDD docking station. The drive turns on, spins, and recognizes the drive. My MacBook Pro will recognize the drive but it gives me a dialogue box saying,

"The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."

It gives me the options to Initialize..., Ignore, or Eject.

I even opened up Disk Utility, and the drive shows up, but it says that the file format is not supported. Again, I have used this for years with this same computer.

Can anyone help me trouble shoot this problem?

Thanks!

 

[matreya]

Can anyone help me trouble shoot this problem?

WD, in their infinite wisdom, deployed encryption on their My Books, so pulling a drive out of it's case and putting it into another case or a dock won't let you get access to the data. You can't even use another my book case because it will have a different encryption key.

I hope you have backups.

 

[Fishrrman]

Here's one more reason why I always recommend that if you "need an external hard drive" -- buy a "bare drive", an external enclosure, and "build it yourself" ... (sigh)