Hi, its me again
I have been doing some nice work on rescuing data from slowed drives and now have a different issue.

An WD40EFRX came to me with ATA password, i foolishly bragged about "learning" new skill.

Tried this tutorial - http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=1072
But cant read modules from the drive.
Can read smart data and flash, but no modules, so cant really do it the way tutorial described.

Been reading the forums for the last two days, but a definite answer is alluding me, perhaps too much talk about password, or just stupid.

Here is the screenshot from Victoria.

Thanks for everything!

If you don´t know the password, that tutorial about using Victoria to send it won´t help you.

You need to be able to read modules for that.

From memory, I can imagine this drive has a locked SA so that is why you are not being able to access it. You did not say which firmware tools you are using.

Search around this forum about SA-locked drives, or SED-locked, and see it it applies to your situation.

Im using wdr full and wd marvel demo. Will look into sa-locked drives.
Thanks

My understanding is that not all SA locked drives have access to RAM or even ROM. I was trying to help someone with a "slow responding" issue on a WD10JMVW-11AJGS1 and could not read RAM or ROM with custom hddsupertool commands. And while this was still a USB drive, I don't think that mattered since I can read ROM and RAM from other USB drives that are not locked. So I don't think you can claim that your process will work with ALL WD drives... Maybe most but not all

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Well this worked like a charm. Thanks!!

It was mostly idiot operator, had wd marvel in button mode and eve though i looked at every option - could not find password reset