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 Post subject: Weird issue with WD10jmvw-11ajgs4 - user data is now encrypt
PostPosted: November 16th, 2017, 12:06 
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All,
I have the above mentioned drive and was able to get about 1/3 of user data through USB interface. After a head swap and USB to SATA conversion with ROM transfer the user data appears to be encrypted. I don't see see a Initio or Symwave chip on the USB PCB, but there is an IC present on the PCB that I can't identify that may be doing encryption/decryption. Can anyone verify if there is another chip maker out there that does encryption/decryption?

Also, the drive is now identifying with a different SN after I converted USB to SATA. What could be causing this?

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 Post subject: Re: Weird issue with WD10jmvw-11ajgs4 - user data is now enc
PostPosted: November 16th, 2017, 14:09 
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PeskyBit wrote:
All,
I have the above mentioned drive and was able to get about 1/3 of user data through USB interface. After a head swap and USB to SATA conversion with ROM transfer the user data appears to be encrypted. I don't see see a Initio or Symwave chip on the USB PCB, but there is an IC present on the PCB that I can't identify that may be doing encryption/decryption. Can anyone verify if there is another chip maker out there that does encryption/decryption?

Also, the drive is now identifying with a different SN after I converted USB to SATA. What could be causing this?

Pesky


Well,
SED " Self Encrypting Drive " . You need pro tools to handle it or there is a chap on forum who has made a software to decrypt a image .You can image the entire drive and then Decrypt it

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 Post subject: Re: Weird issue with WD10jmvw-11ajgs4 - user data is now enc
PostPosted: November 16th, 2017, 18:02 
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After you change the heads, why donĀ“t you continue with the recovery through usb, if that interface is working and the problem was just heads ? Then you would not have problem with encryption


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 Post subject: Re: Weird issue with WD10jmvw-11ajgs4 - user data is now enc
PostPosted: November 17th, 2017, 2:11 
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PeskyBit wrote:
I don't see see a Initio or Symwave chip on the USB PCB, but there is an IC present on the PCB that I can't identify that may be doing encryption/decryption. Can anyone verify if there is another chip maker out there that does encryption/decryption?

Usually for FBlite it's JMicron. You will see JMS markings on the chip.

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