Absolutely, sharing of information is what the internet is about period.

It has it's downfalls yes but... Every one of you are here and also have searched and been shared with information. Finally anyone doing this without special hardware has got help along the line as well there is no reason to act like a mule because someone is not as far along in the education of hdd technology we all start with nothing and we all get help. Gatekeeper business is a thing of the past imho the only people you will service is the rest of the 80% of the population who are too lazy to attempt to understand something.

sorry for not sharing it, coz i've promise him
may be the reason was close to the following link unlocking-hitachi-travelstar-htc426060g9at00-t16473.html

what can i do is help u decode it, pls understand. Thanks

Santo_Kho the internet seems to be built on greed and full of people who expect something for nothing. That is sadly how the world is today :O(

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

So what do you have to contribute?

obviously sweet FA

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

hi there
i get 22.bin using mhdd and .dump


what 's the next step
please explain with details
thanks for all

this is content of 22.bin

fa 00 00 01 0e 00 00 00 02 02 00 0f 32 0c ca fa
0a 32 0a 01 41 46 05 01 00 00 20 00 64 00 00 01
60 02 12 00 22 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 01 e0 01 0f 0f 01 02 02 0a 01 02 00 02
02 06 01 00 ff ff 02 03 50 01 1e 64 01 01 04 40
0b 00 01 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00
00 00 00 12 0a 12 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 1e
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4d 00 24 00 07 00 12
00 00 00 00 0e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
00 00 00 07 00 01 02 0d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 01 03 00 03 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 01 57 44 43 20 57 44 38 30 30 42
45 56 53 2d 30 37 52 53 54 30 20 20 20 20 20 20
20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
20 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 53 7c 42 7c 4c 7c
50 48 4d 46 48 47 43 54 52 37 56 41 4b 52 55 48
00 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 30 35
2d 31 38 2d 32 30 30 38 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 01 07 00 92 9b b8 8d be 95 c0 b8
25 37 71 1b 7d 2b 81 71 4a 6e e2 36 fa 56 02 e3
94 dc c4 6d f4 ad 05 c6 8a b9 96 95 8c 8b df 8a
15 73 2d 2b 19 17 bf 15 2a e6 5a 56 32 2e 7e 2b
55 cc b4 ac 64 5c fc 56 08 40 00 80 00 00 00 00
00 01 30 00 00 05 00 64 00 14 20 32 00 00 00 0f
00 01 02 00 40 00 2c 01 32 00 20 00 55 ff 00 00
00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 58 58 58
58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58
58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58
58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 01 01 01 01
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 0a 00 31 00 00 01

I have tried every way to convert this hex into plain text. I believe the sequence for this is 23 1e 2f 08 08 03 08. When I attempt to type that sequence in using the alt key the 008's delete the previous characters. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jason

Somethings in hex can't be converted directly to ASCII characters, that's why the editor shows periods for the corresponding byte. You need to convert the hex to decimals and try to input them that way.


035 030 047 080 080 030 080. Using the ALT-GR key. Not the standard ALT key on the left. You need to hold down and release the ALT-GR key after every sequence of numbers inputted. That's what I understood. Try that. Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

Hi all, First of all, i would like to congratulate you all in giving up your time to help some n00bs like myslelf. Well Done.
I have been able to get Soo Far with getting my HDD Password. I have managed to dump the file using MHDD however have tried every suggestion on here to get the password

Here is a screenshot of my dump and would be forever grateful if you could give me the Master Password.
Regard
Jamie Cruickshank

Thanks in advance!

You should ask infringer, he knows how to help you. He even published his own guide for resetting passwords

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SAN, NAS, RAID, Server, and HDD Data Recovery.

I did first convert it to decimal and tried using the right hand alt key with the number pad. If anyone tries it and inputs 008 it's the code for backspace.
Except for the fact that the hex characters 03 & 08 when converted to decimal are still 003 & 008 according to every converter i've tried. You have the hex code 1e = 030 & 03 = 030... they both can't be the same.

So it should be 035 030 047 008 008 003 008, but that doesn't work.

Any other thoughts?

There are other tools supporting hex passwords. HDAT2

Thanks ri0toUs you got me to the right place.

Entering the decimals into mhdd it deleted the characters.
Entering the decimals into hdat2 put in what the decimals represented instead of actually performing the command.

Drive is now unlocked! woo hoooo!

if it's your data great. If it's someone else's please understand their right privacy

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

A friend of my wife bring me a laptop with "Enter HDD Password" on startup.
After doing investigations, I found the disk is a WD1600BEVT.
I search all over the Net and find explanations about the message, as I didn't heard about this before.
After lot of searches, I found this forum, with all the explanations about MHDD.
Thank you to all for your contribution,

After loading and executing MHDD 4.5 with the good scripts, I was able to locate the password string.
But I have the same problem than others : it was coded-like.

Then I red all the posts and found those with coded strings and "decoded passwords"

I don't have the magical program which decode the strings, but I found how it work !

In my log (22.bin) , I can read somewhere :

00 01 07 00 1F 00 12 00 30 00 00 00 ....

the coded user password is composed by : 1F 12 30

look at the keyboard scan codes table located at : http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs422/doc/art- ... APNDXC.PDF

and find the password in clear : s e b

that's all.

It took me a while to analyse and find it, but I think Internet is a sharing stuff that's why I want to write this post, maybe will it be usefull to many .....


Thanks again for all informations I found Here.

Great, lets hope you don't lose your password protected laptop in the future with your friends wife on it ;o).


seb is a rather easy password to remember

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

I have my hard drive locked by ATA password

The locked Hard Drive is WD5000AVVS


reading hard drive by MHDD script


script writing files:
21.bin, 22.bin adn 23.bin

Please read my pass.

I'm one of those who have a difficulty unlocking the WD HDDs.
I have WD1600BEVS locked.

Following the instructions a extracted password containing part. But seems like the hdd doesn't accepts the password I'm trying to enter.

According to the screenshot provided I assume that Master and User password is 31 18 13 32 1e 32 1e 12.
But when I try to enter 'normamae' the system tells me that the password is wrong.

Any clues?

i have this DUMP... if someone can help me to find the password in hex, i thank him for ever..

PLS HELP ME

script 22.bin
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2494/catturace.jpg


wd1600bevs
when use this hdd in a acer laptop ask me enter hdd user password... i think is right mhdd for my problem??

sorry for my BAD english