Maxtor Black Armour

[buster80]

Any idea how you get round one of these if the disk is bad? it requires the password to be entered prior to anything. DDI does see it but everything is errors as its mega encrypted.

Password cannot be removed as far as I am aware, I have the correct password but the disk is that bad that when you enter the password in windows it only sees the disk as an encrypted volume

any ideas

thanks

andy

[buster80]

i guess, the drive would need to work close to perfect for the password thing to then unlock the drive, as it cant do that the volume will stay jammed

[mr_spokk]

Make an 1/1 image and work off that one.

Bosse

[Cleanroom]

this is speculation since i have not had the luxury of dealing with any of the black armor drives yet.

But if DDI is only reading errors , as in it is not reading anything at all, the drive may be locked, which is different then encryption.

With data encryption you would still be able to image it, just not read the actual data.

If you have a pc-3000 machine check the drive to see if it locked.

If the device works like the smartware WD drives, you may need to run all your utilities through the USB enclosure device.

good luck