Hello!

I am working on a 1TB Seagate USB drive. Within the enclosure is the Seagate Mobile HDD 1TB, model ST1000LM035. It came to me with broken heads. This model doesn't appear to be supported by PC3000, even with the latest version it just defaults to F3 Arch (common). Therefore, I can't really interact with it the way I need to.

I performed a platter swap to a perfect donor, and everything worked fine. I was able to image 60% (over 1 billion sectors) of the drive before it head crashed. I'm now working with my image, but I can't get it to detect on any computer. The customer told me it was encrypted with whatever default utility came on the drive, which she gave me the password. But its not even getting that far. When I plug the cloned drive into my machine, it detects the USB device but nothing else happens. No password box pop, no drive letter, no nothing. I examined the drive with forensics tools (EnCase) and can see all of the encrypted data just fine.

Is there something I can use to force decrypt this image? Does anyone know anything about the default encryption platform Seagate uses on these new external USB drives?

Thanks!

Disregard, I figured it out

Never look at something through only one lens.......lesson of my day.

Wow ,
First of all i am damn sure its not a seagate native F3 family drive ,This drive is not going to work with seagate utility ,Its a samsung drive .Secondly when ever you start you are suppose to check MBR and see if its parsing properly ,Thirdly i am interested to know what you did not know and then what you came to know and what you did and whats current status of this case .

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Logical,Semi Physical And Physical Data Recovery
Website-> http://www.chandigarhdatarecovery.com

You're wrong...It is a native Seagate drive but it have a "new" feature present at almost all new Seagate drives: it's encrypted.
Rgds

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Its seagate rosewood. It is not encrypted, but SA locked

This forum thread has examples of a native Seagate drive an a Seagate/Samsung drive:
https://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=1997563

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Hello All,
Yes i Was Wrong Its a Native Seagate ,Got One First Time Today ,Sorry Folks For Jumping The Gun Very Soon

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Amarbir S Dhillon , Chandigarh Data Recovery Labs [India]
Logical,Semi Physical And Physical Data Recovery
Website-> http://www.chandigarhdatarecovery.com