I have got a strange hitachi desktop hard disk for repair. If connected to a particular Thinkcenter it works fine ,however if aconnected to any other system it shows 0mb.Even Hitachi DFT shows it 0mb. Is there any way to remove this limitations?

And have you checked it's SA, or have you checked any type of encription?

Hi Thanks for lead
Disk is not encrypted with ATA passwword since it works fine with thinkcenter wothout putting password ,also it does not show capacity means this could be f/w issue. I haven't checked SA.

Does the thinkcenter have TPM enabled?

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Data Recovery Ireland

Wait you say it is working on a thinkcenter but not on any other system. Now I read that it will still shows 0 capacity. So I am confussed on this one. Does it work on thikcenter or does it not. Does it show cqpacity or does it not? If you have this problem then you need a tool that can read your SA A and SA C and know how to fix the SA on this to get back your HDD to work right again.

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Iorana Haraharaini

Thanks all for help,
this disk works fine on thinkcenter like normal disk ,however it shows 0mb if connected to any other pc.
I suspect it could have been locked by some hardware based cards like recovery card. I will take some pro help to clear SA as suggested by poehere

Seems that this PC-Guard is some how HW Solution to protect contents change
i`ve used such Software similar idea but with more network control options
called DeepFreeze if am not mistaking here

inside this solution, you should i think Unlock it through the HW, then take it back anywhere else

may or may not work

try it

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Kuwait Data Recovery - UNIX GTC
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. By: Albert Einstein

Hi
I am wondering how Can a hardware lock hard disk in such a way that even manufacturer tool cannot detect right paramerters? I am sure any hardware card will not be writting anything on disk firmware ,rather no one can access or modify firmware.
isn't it a challeneging question

as an example to this the Smartware WD
in addition

i`ve seen many protection methods for privacy, and this is one of them and many more

there are many HW cards that locks the hdd in startup (power-on) and without unlocking them through it u will end up on Huge Circle

good luck

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Kuwait Data Recovery - UNIX GTC
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. By: Albert Einstein