Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
July 12th, 2022, 1:58
Hi all.
I have this drive that comes up in disk management as unknown and not initialised.
Disk management prompts to initialise it.
However, no media is visible.
The drive LED flashes twice immediately on plugging into the USBC port.
The drive sounds like it is spinning up fine.
The USB port appears undamaged.
I've reseated the PCB circuit board.
No data recovery program can see the drive media.
I was going to try to bypass the USB-SATA bridge chip, but I believe it does on-the-fly encryption.
The chip is a asm225cm.
In the past I've been able to decrypt older WD Essential drives, is that yet an option for this kind of SED encryption?
Any suggestions on recovering the data?
Thanks for reading.
July 27th, 2022, 23:34
this drive encrypts data with MCU not with USV chip, so you can modify the PCB and still get decrypted data
March 19th, 2024, 10:25
hello,
i had the same informations with an external usb seagate hdd...how do you solve your problem?
thank you in advance for your answer.
Jeanluc.ferre
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