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The unique method firstly and solely developed by ACE Lab makes one more breakthrough in recovering data from the encrypted WD!

Now you can recover data from Self-Encrypting Drives which are encrypted not by the USB bridge but via the Main Drive Processor.

Our newest proprietary method implemented in WD Marvell utility empowers you to forget about any donors when recovering data from all kinds of encrypted WD drives.

Earlier, when dealing with the damaged Self-Encrypting Drives (SED), it was necessary to transfer the encrypted image from a damaged drive to a donor drive before starting the data recovery process. It took a lot of time to transfer the data, to find an appropriate donor and to buy it.

Starting from now, the PC-3000 users get the opportunity to use a unique time-saving method to recover data from WD Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) encrypted by the Main Drive Processors, such as 88i9045, 88i9146, 88i9346, 88i9446, 88i1047, etc.

The main feature of such hard drives is that they not only have the User Area encrypted, but also have the Service Area access blocked. Usually, when the access to the Service Area is unblocked, the User Area data cannot be decrypted at once, and it is impossible to work with the Service Data and User Data simultaneously.

The extended functionality of the PC-3000 utility for encrypted WD Marvel HDDs enables to overcome this restriction due to the unique software decryption of the User Area "on the fly". This approach makes it possible to work with such drives in the Data Extractor directly without transferring the encrypted image to another drive.

Moreover, the data can be decrypted even if the user forgot the password!

This technology created by ACE Lab is not available anywhere else.

Being at the front edge of data recovery technologies, ACE Lab is happy to share the innovations with you in the latest PC-3000 software version 5.9.21 which will be released soon.

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This has been out since the update before last. It works quite well on most drives. Even if the key sector is missing it checks for the backup copy in the SA, then will use it to decrypt on the fly. Doesn't even slow it down imaging as far as I can tell.

However it often doesn't work on the newest drives as they update the encryption so often.

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I think you are wrong data-medics
This is a new option to deal with SED and SA blocked

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Precisely

This is a NEW method for WD drives with encrypted SA, NOT the old DE method to decrypt on the fly USB only drives with USB bridge encryption.

This "New" encryption is at MCU level, not at the level of the USB bridge chip.

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Ah, I see. I guess I didn't read their article fully, thought it was just talking more about the decryption for Passports and the likes.

I still have yet to receive one of these encrypted SA drives, they must not be very popular here.

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...yet.
We've had like 10 of them, all in the last 2 months.

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Shame Acelab publicly announced it.

WDC will be pissed

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I doubt it.
No matter what encryption type they use, the drive must know how to decrypt sa to use it. And if the drive knows how to decrypt it the keys and way to decrypt it will be on the drive, and so it will allways be possible to reverse.

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Also here these drives Are coming in every week.✔

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60% of drives we get are mybooks and passports, this is one of the best time cutting things since they launched Express

We too are seeing these drives frequently, at least several a week.

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Just upgraded to PC3000 UDMA-E, anyone know where is this option to disable SED to access SA? I was told it can be switch off by selecting the "self encryption "??

So your trouble is SA access, what is your error ?

For data access you need to:
In DE task parameters -> Command to read -> Decryption
Here you can chose autodetect, add from file or add from folder ( SED )

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I have the PC3000 with the decryption key check box, which I have used successfully many times (until now). I have a WD MyBook that has had a head swap. PC3000 finds the encryption key both by LBA and MOD25. However when selecting the key it is asking me for the user password which the client cannot remember. Ace Labs promo above stated it can be recovered without the password. Anyone know how?

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Can you add the same encryption key from a file that doesn't have a password set? Will that work? Just a thought.

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I believe the claim to recover from drives with forgotten passwords applies only to SED's (Self Encrypting Drives) which employ encryption through the main MCU rather than a USB bridge (using Smartware). Not as yours appears to be, a Mybook using an encryption chip (I.e, Initio, Symwave, JMS etc..) in the USB bridge with a password set.

Correct me if I'm wrong

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I think you might be right...

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It is rare that PCImage is wrong.

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Even when he suggests a nice bottle of red

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Only the one?

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