If someone could just tell me where it begins and ends so i could save it to use with viktoria software. Thank you.

h2oinsyde

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Allready tried that. Straight on laptop, on mhdd and with victoria software. Wrong pass.Master and user...

Sorry my mistake it worked. My fault thank you, you are great.

Thanks. Glad it worked out.

For future reference instead of old scrip it's better to use ZU :

http://malthus.zapto.org/viewforum.php?f=95

If ZU can't unlock it then the mhdd scripts will not unlock it either.

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h2oinsyde is the password set by the bios but you asked for your password.
OLDDRIFT is your password.
Or maybe it never was yours?

Hi guys,
Thank you for your post´s!
I´ve gone from not knowing anything about ATA Passwords to unlocking a WD HDD from a customer, in just 14 hours. I did not even realized how few I knew. I´ve gone over this Topic 2 times, done my fair share of mistakes:
Used mhdd 4.6
Stared at the 22.bin for hours trying to find the password.
Did not exactly do as written in the post´s
Not able to type in the PW in MHDD in dec

But finally, if you read exactly and try to understand what you are trying to do and not only follow instructions, you get the job done.
Special thanks to is0-mick drc m0rbi0us abispac ri0tous and fzabkar your post´s help me realized my wrong approach!
I´ve gone from frustration to anxiety to helplessness to finally happiness all in 14 hours
Guy´s its all here, just read, think and try. It took me 14 hours to do the first WD HDD. For the next on, if I ever have to do this again, it will take me closer to 10 min

A hint: for the unlock I user hdat2, it allows you to input your PW in dec AND shows you the inputed PW in hex so you can double check.

Thank you all for support!

I'm from the Croatian and I need a your help
should the password from the hard disk

Try the following command (all on one line):

hdparm --security-unlock $(printf '\x38\x3A\xD8\x63\x57\xC4\x98\x74\xB0\xD7\x91\x9C\x20\xAF\x88\x73\xCC\x74\xD0\xE9\x60\x37\x07\x4D\xA8\x24\x39\x23\x42\x25\xA8\x5F') /dev/ice

Replace "/dev/ice" with your actual device name, eg /dev/sdb.

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HDD doctor for WD it can help u easily

From CINDIA Data Recovery

I haven't tested the following script, but I believe it should retrieve the passwords from a WD Marvell drive. If you are inclined to try it, then please use an expendable drive before trying it on the real thing.

The procedure is based on the feedback I have received in the following discussion:

http://community.wd.com/t5/Desktop-Mobi ... m-p/757574

Essentially what the script attempts to do is to retrieve 0x20 bytes from section 0x13 of module 02 beginning at offsets 0x04 (user password) and 0x24 (master password).



rd_user.bin



rd_master.bin



If the above procedure works, then it would be a very simple matter to modify it to write zeros back to the drive.

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I have now verified that the script works on a WD2500BB. The only necessary changes are in regard to 8.3 file names.

See http://malthus.zapto.org/viewtopic.php? ... 4271#p4271

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thanx this way work on WD my passport es 1TB ? plz help so tnx

Greetings to everybody!

I have the similar problem that other guys have here. HDD is WD2500bevs-22ust0.

My laptop Acer Aspire 5920 died once (guess smth happened with motherboard), and I had used the hdd password before it happened, so I can't restore the information from its disk now.
The most funny thing is that I know the password (!). It is "12312312". And despite that I can't restore the access to hdd. I tried to type my password in MHDD and Victoria (both "master" and "user" variants), but they returns me "error" or "wrong".

I've carefully read the topic and have been able to obtain the .bin file by using the scripts. It's also funny that I've even found there my password coded into hex!! (highlighted on the screenshot, where '0200' = '1', '0300' = '2' etc)

So, my question is what i'm doing wrong? And how can I enter the password which was "12312312" with MHDD or Victoria?

PS I've also tried enter with Right_Alt and NUMpad (001 002 003 001 002 003 001 002), but it hasn't helped.

PPS It's quite important for me to recover the information, so is it possible with soft i've mentioned?

Thank you all in advance, guys!

Hi! You seem to have done everything right.
Try using Victoria for Windows version. Then try "12312312" (as plain text) or "0203040203040203" (as Hex).

One problem might be the bios is freezing the password function. You would know this in Victoria for Windows as in the passport window it might show security "frozen" in which case you would need to plug in the drive immediately after the system has booted in to windows. Good luck!

Thank you for the replying!

Will try it as soon as I get to a working machine.

Also, I've found another solution here that may be suitable for cases which are similar to mine, will try it too:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8374&start=540 (issue described by Samantha_14 and answer by fzabkar)

@Maelstrom, the following MHDD script should disable your drive's password. It uses the standard ATA SECURITY DISABLE PASSWORD command -- it does not write to the firmware.

The password is transmitted to the drive via a 512-byte file (disablpw.bin). The first 2 bytes constitute the control word (00 00). This is then followed by the 32-byte password. The rest of the file is padded with zeros. You should place this file in the same directory as MHDD.EXE.


disablpw.bin

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Success!

fzabkar, have got error reading drq with this script in mhdd.. (after the string "checkdrq")

But also have tried HDAT2 v5 and finally done the unlocking with it by entering user-password in the HEX-mode: 02000300etc(whole password in hex)+0000(filling free space in the field up to 32 symbols with nulls). And it has worked

So, thank you very much guys and your great forum

That could be because the command runs in PIO mode rather than DMA mode. I suspect that removing the "checkdrq" line or prefixing it with a ";" should fix the problem. I'll give it a try when I have time.

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Sorry, I should have tested my code (there were typos).

I have now verified that the following works (cut-and-pasted from working script).


The user password was "TESTPWD".

disablpw.bin

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