Hi to all the Harddisk specialists,

I will replace a harddisk what is build in a car entertainment system. It is secured with the ATA Password. I got a new disk same type as the original one. I know some users are starting the radio so it will put the password into the harddisk and then they connect it while it is powerd up to a other adapter and clone it. Is there a way to clone it without open it this way? Just plug in and clone sector by sector?

Thanks for your time.

Kind regards

What you can do is to install an old WD drive in place of the original drive, allow the entertainment system to set a password on it, and then use a free tool (WDMarvel, HDDSuperTool) to recover the password. Then use Victoria or hdparm to remove this password from the original drive.

https://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=570

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Will this pocedure work with a SATA Drive Toshiba MK2060GSC? I will not kill anything on the Original Drive.

That's just a 2.5" SATA model. I can't see how this procedure would harm the original drive. In any case, you can't clone a drive when it is security locked.

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