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dko
 Post subject: Hitachi HCC547550A9E380 unlocking?
PostPosted: March 18th, 2015, 17:11 
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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,
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data-medics
 Post subject: Re: Hitachi HCC547550A9E380 unlocking?
PostPosted: March 18th, 2015, 17:15 
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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.

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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: Hitachi HCC547550A9E380 unlocking?
PostPosted: March 18th, 2015, 17:33 
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Try an ATA Secure Erase:

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

Otherwise ...

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

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