Anything related to computer forensics (new section!)
January 24th, 2014, 22:39
Hi,
In most cases, I have to prevent any changes to the hard drives I acquired, including passwords. I own a kit of PC3000 Portable and it has the function to remove password but it isn't exactly what I want. So, I'm looking for anyway that could bypass the password set in bios or other tools like MHDD (data encryption or whole HDD encryption can be excluded) to the HDD in order to retrieve the data inside. Unlock and lock the HDD with the same password (password recover) is fine as well.
I've heard a method to backup few fields from the SA area, remove the password with PC3000 and then copy back the SA again would do the trick. Could anyone shed me some light on this?
January 24th, 2014, 22:42
This is something that Atola Insight supports natively. You can temporarily "disable" an ATA password without making any changes to the drive (i.e., the change will revert after a power cycle).
January 25th, 2014, 4:37
Just use PC3K to "View" the password.
Won't happen with HGST drives though
January 31st, 2014, 0:07
Dmitry Postrigan wrote:This is something that Atola Insight supports natively. You can temporarily "disable" an ATA password without making any changes to the drive (i.e., the change will revert after a power cycle).
The product only works with ATA drives? Does it work with SATA 3.5'' and 2.5''?
January 31st, 2014, 2:11
The "ATA" in "ATA password" refers to the ATA command standard, not the physical interface.
February 6th, 2014, 5:27
guru wrote:Just use PC3K to "View" the password.
Won't happen with HGST drives though
I did, and the program showed me a string of hex. The drive I need to perform data recovery on is a WDC WD5000AAKS 08V0A0.
Here's the string: AD6F 4C24 375E A213 F1CA 862F 0000 0000 0000 0000
I tried forming the password through keycode from this
http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12257&p=190482 but It didn't work out.
Can anyone help me with this case?
February 7th, 2014, 3:29
The password should be a string of 32 bytes. You should be able to send these bytes, without modification, to your drive. I'm not a data recovery professional, though.
February 7th, 2014, 6:02
fzabkar wrote:The password should be a string of 32 bytes. You should be able to send these bytes, without modification, to your drive. I'm not a data recovery professional, though.
How do I send the password to the drive? I found this
post but It has a warning that this method is dangerous and could wipe data from the drive.
February 7th, 2014, 14:52
Use Victoria for Windows to send the password as a 32-byte file. There is a thread at The HDD Oracle which shows you how to do this.
February 9th, 2014, 17:15
Just do it within pc3k. RTFM
February 13th, 2014, 12:37
Atola is best, specially for Toshiba hdd's
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