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 Post subject: Hdd unlocked, all files unreadable
PostPosted: April 11th, 2013, 17:25 
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Hello! I am having an issue with one of my HDD's.

It was fitted onto my little Acer Netbook, and I had added an ATA password. The Mobo of the netbook went FUBAR, so I had to unlock the HDD through other means. After some searching I stumbled upon ATAPWD. I managed to Unlock and Disable the user password. Now, I can view the files, although they are all corrupt. The file sizes are there, but they are unreadable. Pictures don't come up, and text documents appear corrupt.

The only thing I can gather is that the header for each file has been trashed, rendering them useless.... Any way to revert/fix this?

Quick edit: The only corrupt files are the ones inside the Documents and Settings... Files that didn't have permissions set by the User I had on the Acer Netbook open up normally.


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 Post subject: Re: Hdd unlocked, all files unreadable
PostPosted: April 11th, 2013, 17:56 
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Encryption, eg Bitlocker ???

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 Post subject: Re: Hdd unlocked, all files unreadable
PostPosted: April 13th, 2013, 16:23 
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Was this an Aspire one ZG5 by any chance?


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