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Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

December 10th, 2017, 3:13

Toady i have unlocked one laptop 750GB hdd with WDMarvel 5.0 beta demo using password remove method1.
This is of course after a lot of try with Zu, WDR demo and other password unlocking ways using softwares.

Anyone requiring WDMarvel 5.0 beta demo may contact me in email:- skdat2002@yahoo.co.uk

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

May 17th, 2018, 19:34

Hi can anyone decipher anything from my eeprom dump from a my passport essential 500gb I have attached a jpeg of the bit I believe is needed, I can’t attach the full bin file as it says it’s not aloud. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

October 16th, 2018, 8:35

Can anybody suggest some cheap WD drive that stores USER password in "plain text" that is easy to pull with free software without any professional-ish hardware ?
I just have board that locked hd204ui samsung drive and toshiba DT01ATA300 drives with user passwords. Passwords that I don't know.
People said that there is no easy way to unlock toshiba one even with full erase and data loss. But maybe there is another way.
I want to let board "protect" another drive .... this time drive that is easy to get password from..... to get password for other drives.

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

October 17th, 2018, 16:55

Spildit, thanks for reply! But sadly idea of using another drive totally failed for me. Last time that motherboard did not even let me use toshiba drive for 1 day for 1 time... it randomly password-protected samsung drives after crash / drop of electricity while i was not watching. But not now. I tried all ports... tried reseting and turning off and turning power off. Tried to save some setting in bios like setting time and such stuff. Its not protecting wd drive that i bought specifically to lock to read password.

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

October 17th, 2018, 18:33

I have no software tool for samsung. And I don't have hardware tools to unsolder and reprogram memory of toshiba drive.
I'm just out of luck this time. Anyway thanks for reply.

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

December 16th, 2018, 21:03

is there any free program that can perform this commands from your guide ?
https://forum.hddguru.com/download/file ... &mode=view

i still can't unlock samsung drives (and hitachi/toshiba one too) :(

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

December 16th, 2018, 21:28

Thanks for such fast reply! I just can't find a way to write your clean module back to drive.
I think ZOC requires special cables and hardware to connect the drive to PC :( And I don't know meaning of VSC..... Visual Studio Code ?

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

December 16th, 2018, 21:48

I just can't find free way to send this commands https://forum.hddguru.com/download/file ... =13186&t=1

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

December 17th, 2018, 16:38

Spildit wrote:HRT DEMO as stated above.

can it write buffer to the drive too ?

I think I already tried IDE Terminal Beta-2 and phishin_ca (Shawn) ATA Terminal without any result. first one freezes second one gives errors. Others have absolutely different interface :( .

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

December 19th, 2018, 8:39

i tried version 2.1. when i try to connect to the drive (same ata port that used in SHT 4.0.9) almost all "leds" from the left side of the "spacer" are getting lit. it detects that drive is locked. but can't make that thing to work. probably need to try new version.

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

January 25th, 2019, 11:55

Hello to everybody. Can somebody help me with the password HDD WD2500BEVT? The .bin was generated by Victoria HBC 15
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Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

June 19th, 2019, 19:56

Western Digital WD80EB-28DFH2 8GB

Have run command on ata terminal on mhdd 4.5,

; rm modul id 42
reset
waitnbsy
regs = $57 $44 $43 $00 $00 $a0 $8a
waitnbsy
regs = $00 $02 $00 $00 $0F $E0 $21
waitnbsy
checkdrq
sectorsto = 42.bin
; End.


need the user password cant understand it seams different from other peoples dump, it hdd from original xbox

Thanks for your help
Keith
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bin
(1 KiB) Downloaded 795 times

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

September 26th, 2019, 15:45

I just want to say thank you !!!!! :D
This script http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=113&t=1815 worked with hd204ui.

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

February 16th, 2020, 7:00

Thanks a lot

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

May 6th, 2020, 7:49

Wanted to say thanks as well, this thread helped me unlock an age old drive from my neighbor.
The drive with the unknown ata password was a WD 2500 bevt from 2009.

Here's a quick write up, of what I did, you can find all the tools mentioned here:

https://github.com/wschopohl/wdatapwd

[On another windows machine] I created a bootable usb stick with HPUSBFW_v2.2.3.exe and copied the unzipped MHDD directory on it.
I disabled AHCI in bios, then I booted from usb without the hdd (bios would freeze on password screen otherwise) and connected the hdd via sata once DOS was booted up.
Started MHDD.exe, selected correct drive with "Shift + F3" (for me it was 6). Then "F2" for scan drive, reported some information about the drive and that it was locked by ATA password. Executed .dump script which created 21.bin and 22.bin. Unplugged the stick (didn't even bother to shut down) and put it in a working laptop. Opened 22.bin with a hexeditor (I put 22.bin in the github repo as well, if you want to follow along). Search for this sequence "01 07 00" and found it at position 0x10F (your position might be different though). The next 32 bytes looked like this: "30 00 16 00 26 00 26 00 1F 00 23 00 17 00 14 00 00 ...". Ignoring all the zeros I got this: "30 16 26 26 1F 23 17 14". Then using MSKeyLog.TXT I converted all the numbers to letters, in my case it spells "BULLSHIT" and used the lower case version "bullshit" successful as user password!
One side note: For whatever reason I wasn't able to use the password with the MHDD unlock command, but the password was accepted by the bios hdd password unlock screen. And don't forget to turn AHCI back on if you turned it off, my Windows wouldn't start otherwise.

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

September 18th, 2021, 8:24

hello i installed ms-dos on pendrive and run on my asus p5kmpl am/ps motherboard
it shows A:\>
now what to do
i have zu.exe ,mhdd
how to use them?
after usb boot by rufus pendrive not even show on win 10 laptop.
how to run zu
please explain step by step
I need to unlock wd 500 gb hdd

Re: Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital /solution upd

November 5th, 2021, 18:27

ST @ LOKI username.

have had sucess! in previous trial.

to add to topic board!
#development_tool_sW.link

[MHDD 4.6] NEW AVAIL
from HDDGURU's WEBSPACE;'/1
http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02- ... %3ESCSI%29.
or search app name in preffered engine. ie duck-duck or goo.

IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI = SUPPORT
ISO IMAGES for VIRTUAL MOUNT/BURN DISK IMAGE - avail
self extracting floppy and archived versions still at resource link.
and executable archive for ref.
MAGICK BOOT DISK COMPILE ALSO AVAIL including MHDD 4.6 > follow link.

(SOLUTION)current
[keep topic Open] -TY for farthering development and confirmation or improvements to scientific method of recover.

THANKS ALL WHO CONTRIB.
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