I am trying to access my encrypted samsung evo 840 SSD
I had battery charging issues on my old laptop but the hard drive WAS WORKING until laptop battery discharged completely.
1. Drive is working now.
2. It was encrypted by setting ATA drive password in BIOS.
3. I know the password, I entered it many times on my old laptop.
After moving hard drive few months later to my new laptop I was not able to access it.
Drive is detected by the computer.
I enter ATA password.
It acts like the password is wrong.
From what I learned so far the issue is that my old laptop used different way
to set/unlock ATA password. It was 2013 laptop samsung 370r5e.
I found topics where people describe similar issues
and resolved them by plugging the hard drive to the old laptop.
So I can unlock it in an older machine.
My old laptop (samsung 370r5e) had 8 char ATA password and my new laptop uses 16 (or 32; not sure) password. And thats the main issue. There are different way ATA passwords are set and read?
Solutions:
1. Useing MHDD is probably not posible.
My new laptop (lenovo 700-15isk) demands I enter drives ATA password before booting into MHDD, cant go past it.
Can I install some unofficial moded BIOS to boot MHDD and skip BIOS password prompt?
Maybe some moded BIOS that will use some old ATA password scheme?
Do mods like this exist and where would I find them?
Maybe running older BIOS version on my laptop that used 8 char passwords? Not sure where could I find them.
I can boot MHDD and than plug in my SSD after to skip password requirement but I dont know how risky it is to plug in drives while system is running. Is there a safe way to do it? SATA is plug and play right
2. Repairing my old laptop.
The issue is that is does not charge the battery. I checked the charger and it works OK. Laptop worked fine until battery went to 0%. I would have to replace motherboard to fix it. Its expensive
3. Connecting drive using USB adapter.
Are there ways to send ATA commands to the drive connected via USB adapter?
Is there a software that could do it and turn off the ATA password? I have 100% the right password.
4. Trying different PC
If you tell me that MHDD definitely had the different ATA password schemes worked out I could buy some 30 euro used desktop PC to run it.
Would still be cheaper than sending drive to data recovery center to unlock it.
I know that people where able to run MHDD by skiping BIOS ATA password prompt in desktops.