Drive : 7200 FDE.1

Arrived with (0)LBA - sorted : data recovered [No help required Russ]

On receipt of faulty drive access to terminal F3 > // Repaired translator issue.
(Note : No SATA data cable connected)

On request to read Security sectors (tinkerdude) connected SATA data cable and attempt to Serial port.
Immediately on power up Terminal reported :

Any further Terminal Commands result in

Question : Do these drives (FDE) shut out Serial port connection? and when?

SeaCos is part of the drive "Trusted ATA Send / Receive code" :O) Enjoy

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

I have a first part of a solution for this :
seagate FDE "trusted" with no terminal access ...

Visit this : http://www.hddsync.com/services/unlock-fde/
show the demo in video
and then send me more info on your case ...

Nice, luckily it's not complicated to unlock these if you have a brain :O)

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

Nice work !
And nice to know it is possible

Wait a second ...
Doesnt the FDE drive come with some sort of software to set the password and later to provide the password to the drive for the current session (as its encryption/decryption key)?
If so, since you know the users encryption password, couldnt you use that software to pass the key to the drive ?

Not if the drive is damaged to the point that the software won't run

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

It's my case for the hard drive in the video !
no boot on the first 128Mo (the partition's protection) because Bad Sectors !
and no boot to windows because Bad Sectors !
and no extraction with standard tools : too many Bad Sectors (some of them freeze my pc) !

It's for this case I have wrote my tools for unlock without any other "tier" software "for security"...

It's do unlock (don't do on/off) and then I can read the drive with a software who deal correctly read errors...