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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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WD3200bevs ATA Protected

January 16th, 2010, 21:28

i have a western digital wd3200bevs 320 gb hdd that is now locked by ata password

i have tried using hdat2 and mhdd but they both mhdd fails and hdat2 aborts

i have tried using the master password WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD in both programs and in lower and upper case but it dont work

can anyone suggest what i can do to get my hdd usable again?

Re: WD3200bevs ATA Protected

January 16th, 2010, 22:10

No.

I definitely wouldn't suggest searching on this topic and reading one of the eighteen threads about it where it is spelled out step by step over and over again for people who have trouble following directions.

Re: WD3200bevs ATA Protected

January 17th, 2010, 23:37

I Have Tried Using Hdderase And Left It Going Over Night And It Still Failed
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