Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

[hexacid]

Hi hexacid. Your password is easily visible. See my earlier post and you will see how simple it is.

Ps. Like Winnie The Pooh much? Worth looking at one of his friends, wink wink, nudge nudge

well i tried all hes friends w/o any luck lol
tryed ScanCode, best resul so far was tigger,but wrong pass.

[dick]

tigger no thats incorrect!
check it again!

Also be aware how the password should be entered. Depending on your input method or application/utility. If in doubt you need to read through the whole thread as all the info is here.

[gathor]

And Tigger looks like which animal? Your password in 5 characters mate, should you look up my post you would have had the password in no time.

[hexacid]

And Tigger looks like which animal? Your password in 5 characters mate, should you look up my post you would have had the password in no time.

omg thx a bunch! im ok for computer hardware/software intall but programing and hex stuff im lurning slowly
best regards

[gathor]

No worries mate:)

[don250r]

UPDATE:
the ability to unlock toshiba as well as WD hdd's
seems to be dependent upon the particular sata-ide adapter i bought
tried with 2 different adapters and zu said nonWD
unlocked with my adapter howeverhttp://forum.hddguru.com/posting ... ilies&f=1#

[jmrltd]

Hi can someone help me decode the passwords from this?

Many thanks,
Jamie

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[br0adband]

Does anyone have any experience with the newer AFT drives from Western Digital and whether or not any of the current unlocking capabilities work for them? I have a literally brand new drive (just bought it from Geeks.com and it was delivered today) - I'm pretty sure it's not a refurb or anything, it doesn't list "REFURB" or whatever on the labeling - and when I put it in my Dell Latitude D630 I'm getting that white screen/black text saying it's password protected. Now, I didn't put a password on it, the drive was bare when shipped (not in a WD retail box), and I'm stuck for a solution.

I contacted Geeks.com and they said I could return the drive but that means I'll be without one for at least 10 more days most likely for them to receive this one, then ship me a replacement one (they promised they'd test it on a Dell D630 just to be sure it's not locked up). I was told they bought a ton of these drives recently from WD directly and I was the third person that's had issues with them in terms of them apparently having a password in place.

Now, I can go through all the crap of sending this one back and whatever, but I've read through this thread twice now, I've grabbed all the tools and made a USB stick or two and I'm using an older Dell Dimension desktop PC as the "workstation" since it automagically uses native IDE mode on the SATA controller (there's no option for AHCI at all and the hardware is about 7 years old - the chipset in place is an ICH6 which doesn't even have AHCI support to begin with). Trying to run scripts with MHDD (and I've tried a dozen or so) all result in a "NO DRQ" error immediately after trying to write the cs.bin file regardless of the script(s) I use.

MHDD doesn't see the drive until I Shift+F3 then select the PCI controller (since the SATA one is a secondary one to the native IDE onboard) and I have no other drives of any kind attached, the WD is the only one in the machine for this testing process.

I located a newer version of ZU (file archive was zu.betta.050911.rar) so I'm guessing it's from May or September of 2011, and while it "runs" it just shows me the "Elapsed" time and it's currently at 13 minutes so I figure that's not actually working at all, I don't know.

Found one of the marv_r utilities and tried that once but it just gives "drive timeout" errors.

Not sure where to proceed at this point and would love to actually get the drive functional without having to go through the time wasting process of exchanging it.

If anyone has any info or experience with the AFT drives (the model number ends with PVT) and knows if the tools will work or I'm just frustrating myself for no good reason, I'd appreciate any info you may be able to provide.

Thanks...

[SAjunky]

My guess hard drive is not password locked, but is locked by corrupted firmware. I don't work with passwords, but my feeling is that password locked drive should at least respond to F2 plus [SHIFT]+F2 commands in MHDD and also it should report SMART statistics F8. Check it out.
What HDAT2 tells you about?

[br0adband]

Well, it does respond to the F2/F3 commands in MHDD, but here's the really funny part - chalk it up to age I suppose (I'm approaching 50 now and been working with computers pretty much daily since the mid-1970s...):

So I read this thread, then I read it again, scan it again, keep coming back to it feeling like there's just this one little tidbit of info that I'm missing, etc - the one piece of the puzzle that keeps eluding me.

I decide to plug the drive into test desktop I have (with Windows 7 Pro on it) and just let it sit there for a while. For whatever reason, Windows 7 actually detected the drive (it was seen by the BIOS) - the test machine is the Dell Dimension 4600 I mentioned previously, and an update on that as well: it's got an ICH5 chipset/controller, not ICH6, maybe that makes some of the difference, I don't know.

Anyway, Windows 7 detects the drive, it shows up in Device Manager but Disk Management can't do anything with it nor can diskpart (both give the expected I/O errors but the drive is visible to both). I decide to see what A-FF Repair Station tells me with their unlocking diagnostic - their website says they can unlock any WD drive so, I grab the tool, install it then run it and when it starts looking for drives, the WD disappears from Device Manager completely, and after about a minute or so the unlocking tool says yep, it can unlock the drive. I cancel the Repair Station diagnostic and about 2 minutes later Windows still hasn't seen the drive again so I do a refresh in Device Manager (right click the computer name at the top and "Scan for hardware changes" - the drive is detected again by Windows at that point and so I leave the machine to sit for a while.

Amazingly, after about 3 more minutes, I see a new drive letter in Explorer and the volume label is SYSTEM RESERVED which is obviously the small 100MB partition at the beginning of this WD drive, and about 2 minutes later I see "Acer" appear as a second volume label and bells start going off in my head... DING... DING... DING...

I click the Acer volume and it loads in Explorer but it does so excruciatingly slowly. Now, when I checked the S.M.A.R.T. status of this drive originally it was completely clean - green all the way, not one bad sector was listed but, that could be because of some interference with the password protection, I don't know. I couldn't actually do any kind of surface scan of course but, the drive seemed to be reporting it was in good shape at that time.

That's when the magic moment happens: I remember that back in a post in this thread someone listed a few master passwords, and one of them said something about "acer" so... I go back to the beginning of the thread and scan the first few pages, find that post with the master passwords, know that I've already tried the WDC-repeat ones and had no luck, then I see it: h20insyde

It can't be that easy, can it? Well, let's find out. Reboot the PC, load MHDD off my USB stick, Shift+F3 to detect the drive, UNLOCK, 1 for master password, then h2oinsyde and... I'll be damned.

Done.

In bright green letters, and boy did I smile big and wide. Did DISPWD and removed it permanently and now the drive is unlocked.

So I figure let's run a proper scan for any potential defects at that point and see what happens. I start the surface scan with F4 and the defaults and it's zipping along at 73MB/s average read speed until about 2.1% in and wham... bad sector... and another... and another... and another, etc... I wasn't doing the repair/erase waits at that point, just the scan, so I stop it and restart with the repair/erase waits option, it gets to the same point and starts showing W... W... WW... WW... oops... x... another WW... x... so now I'm kinda disappointed.

I stop the scan again, hit F8 for S.M.A.R.T. status and now suddenly there's errors showing up, a lot of them. Reallocated sector count is 113 where it listed nothing before, not a single one. Lots of errors now and I don't know if they're actually there or the firmware is hosed so severely this drive isn't going to be of much use, I really don't know.

So that's where I stand now (as of Thursday evening) but I did a longer scan this morning and now the reallocated sector count is 384, I figure the drive is toast, or something is just seriously wrong. When I attach it to the machine directly with the SATA controller, MHDD can see it, the BIOS/controller sees it, Windows sees it and can access it (but again, excruciatingly slow access speed, like a full minute just to refresh a directory listing), and I'm not sure where to go or how to proceed.

If the firmware is corrupt I haven't got a clue how to fix that if it's even possible. The drive is silent, it's not making any noise or clicking sounds whatsoever so, I don't *think* it's damaged, there's no physical damage to the outside of any kind, not a mark on it, but apparently it was inside an Acer or Gateway laptop previously hence the h2oinsyde master password actually working.

If anyone has any suggestions I'm open to 'em. If it's truly toasted and useless, at least I learned a few new tricks in this process I suppose, but I sure would love to get this drive working 100% if it's mechanically and electronically sound. I don't know if it's actually damaged to the degree the scans keep telling me, so if there's something better than MHDD for testing or repair, I'd love to know how to get it done.

Thanks for reading...

ps
I'll do an HDAT2 scan here after I finish this post and reboot, will report back the results.

[br0adband]

Oh well, so much for that idea. HDAT2 basically started picking up a lot of write/verify errors around 2.9% into the drive, then around 3.1% it just totally went haywire and wouldn't even seek anymore, rebooted the machine twice to get the drive detected again and now using MHDD one last time to see what happens with an erase waits pass.

Looks like the drive is just useless.

1 year and 1 week old, with only 89 hours of use on it. I swear, this is the 27th WD drive that I've acquired in the past year or so that's been bad even though the S.M.A.R.T. status still tells me it's "Good" (and even in spite of the number of reallocated sectors being reported). I think Western Digital needs to go back to the drawing board and learn how to make hard drives again. I've got a 40GB WD model that was made in 2001 and it's still going strong, and it's been in use pretty much every single day since I bought it in the summer of 2001 save for a few days of being off when I moved across country years ago. And I've got an IBM "DeathStar" 75GXP that still works to this day as well, not one bad sector and it's been running nearly as long.

They don't make 'em like they used to, unfortunately.

What a pooch screw this whole storage thing is becoming...

[gathor]

Hi can someone help me decode the passwords from this?

Many thanks,
Jamie

Just read few previous posts by me, it is dead simple.

[baklazanowy]

Hi folks !

I have some difficulties with decoding password from 22.BIN file.

I've read all 26 pages, but still nothing...

Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

Attached file:

Please help.

Greetings

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[baklazanowy]

Thread is dead ? Any help ?

[Ancaster]

Hi everyone,
Came across this thread googling.

Most of my drives are WD but the one in my car is a Toshiba ATA.
I didn't read back all the pages.

My ATA-SATA adapter just came in the mail.
Can someone point me to software that might work to unlock it?
TIA!

[labtech]

read the thread and/or use the search function

[Ancaster]

Thanks. I always forget about search within a forum.
I queried "Toshiba unlock".

MHDD?
Or is there something more current?

Since it's locked, I don't want it out for very long and trying to fiddle with the unlock procedure, ie; I need it to drive.
Once it's unlocked, I'll ghost it, and put the drive back in.
I'm not liking the 40 or so odd screws to get it out of the AVcontrol box, lol
Getting to the AVC already means first taking apart the shifter, panel, radio/GPS, etc. which I've already done and put back together to install a nav/display bypass switch a couple of weeks ago.

[Ancaster]

Oh, I'm looking for a free solution because it's not essential.
Thx

[BlackST]

I think it'll be a LONG search then...

Toshiba are a different story from other drives.

[nyunyika0]

Hy,

I have a WD800bevs-22rst0 locked with any password.

I dont know how I unlocked this drive.

Can you tell me if it is possible?

Thanks