Thats not quite doable. One reason is because the latest HGST drives have 2 sets of codes for factory on. So you would NEVER get the special key that way.

However, it's a good idea as I made a script like this 13 years ago to do the exact same thing (Didn't really help):O)

So the best way to find commands and understand them is to start digging hard disk ROMS + Overlays (Sometimes) If you want to be ahead of the game this is where you need to start. Look at DVD patcher forums if you really have a spare 1-2-3 years.


Quote"Factory commands should be able to be had by the rx"

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

now i realize why this forum didn't have complete information for the locked drive

I'm sorry if i choose mis-location and mis-time, but very hope to get help....
My HDD is Samsung HD080HJ (80GB). Because of some unknown reasons it was locked by password.

After theoretical knowledge exploring i've stop before that:
Bootable FDD with DOS and MHDD;
HDD with user maximum password (by MHDD opinion);
"t" 32 times is not fit (i suppose master password was changed too);
Other passwords (set by some hdd-soft) are also don't fit.

My questions are:
1. Can i unlock it without special hardware if i don't know any (user/master) passwords?
2. Are the other passwords for my Samsung exists?
3. Who was able to set this password if user was not able to do that? PC was dusty (maybe it was a hardware-brake), and user said some message appeared in internet browser and he click something (maybe it's windows-virus).
4. Can HDDUnlocker repair this from windows? (this is the most "linked" soft in the internet - it's a fake or it's true?).

Thank you very much, sorry for my (maybe) stupid questions and for my (not native) poor english. I have no time to search more information, and actually have no much ideas about where i can found it.. but this is a very very important thing for me (i can be fired if will not fix it). So i hope for advices, links or whatever you can give me .

please help me, humans!!!

Good posting 'Infringer' I too, had a WD1600BB IDE drive that was
ATA Password Locked & rather than throw in trash, I put it aside with similar
intentions to you and finally decided attack it. I found booting from V4.6 CD ISO
& using 2GB USB Pen Drive, I was able to get the info that I thought was going
to give me a chance to get this HDD Partitioned/Formatted etc-previously with
the ATA PWD Lock, the drive did appear to be 'throw away' material.
Others did suggest a LLF, Low level format but I knew that wouldnt be possible.
Luckily by searching the saved *.bin files, I was able to determine that 42.bin did
contain what could be considered a Password [line 390B08-03A0-03 12 Alpha characters]
and further Net research led me to believe that this HDD had at some time, been in an
X-Box. Fortunately, the Password was spot on and the Drive is now Partitioned
& working well-countless hours were spent to get the final result.
Experience is a wondeful teacher-now moving onto the next 'challenge'
Thanks for sharing your methods.

Warren

BeefeaterNZ