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
November 5th, 2023, 7:03
Hello, I have a wd40ndzw-11a8js1 disk with pcb 810035 that cant be read when plug but disk spins normally and trying to read
i tried accessing sata line with this method mention in this link
https://www.blizzarddr.com/convert-wd-usb-to-sata/ but i forgot to detach usb bridge crystals ,i read it somewhere and i think it wont affect it anyways,,now it shows in but data is raw in windows disk management and in linux it show 1.8TB unknown partition and disk spin to max ,if i buy this unlock board
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001789004781.html transfer rom i can recover data?
November 7th, 2023, 22:40
I don't think so, this is SED v2 drive and the MCU has unique keys to decrypt data. You have to use native PCB.
Post sample of first sector, I'm guessing it's encrypted.