WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

[Matatack]

Hello,
I tried the MHDD program in MASTER, without success !

The BIOS has no password (supervisor and user is CLEAR), but the HDD yes !

When the hard drive is connected via USB to a computer, it appears as uninitialized !

I do not want to lose the data, I am lost !

The firmware is: 01.01A01 , no bad sector...

[TXRanger]

Are you saying that the WD5000BPVT has the ATA password set? If that is the case, MHDD would probably read all sectors as "Abort". Is that your case? What is the background, what happened to the drive when it quit working?

[Matatack]

Yes, it's probably a password in EEPROM.
The eight-character password has just been forgotten

[unknown]

The password not stored in the EEPROM, it stored in SA.

A professional intervention needed if data is important.

[Matatack]

A fake update (s p o o f) of firmware on the hard drive could solve my problem ?

What happens if i initializes the hard drive on Windows ?

[Matatack]

hddguru.com could make a SPOOF ?

[dick]

What happens if i initializes the hard drive on Windows ?

If you want your important data back then don't! If the data is not required then give it a try.

[Matatack]

Thus the initialization of the hard disk will make me lose all the data ?

With a program as ActiveFileRecovery i can get back the data after this operation ?

Or the data are coded by the PWD HDD ?

[pcimage]

If the HDD is PWD protected then you won't be able to read OR write, so the question is academic.

I believe there is "WD DIY password removal" thread on this forum, so if the data is not that important and you want to risk DIY stuff then search it.

[Matatack]

Sediv looks good, but i have to find a approved tutorial