Hitachi HCC547550A9E380 unlocking?

[dko]

Hello,

anyone an idea how to unlock my Hitachi HCC547550A9E380 500GB 2.5" SATA?
It seems to be locked, can´t do a format on it.

thanks,

[data-medics]

Do you have any data recovery equipment to work with? If not, it'll be quite difficult to do that.

What makes you think that it's locked, and not having other hardware issues.

[fzabkar]

Try an ATA Secure Erase:

http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/secure-erase.html

Otherwise ...

http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php? ... 166&p=1555