Hello everyone,

I have an hdd wd5000BMVW-11AMCSO USB3 that is not recognised with USB. I have installed a SATA board on it and i cloned the drive 100% with PC3K. The disk has symwave encryption so i connected the cloned drive to a USB wd adapter (with symwave chip) but the result is the same. No access to data.

Can someone give me any idea of what to do with this drive?

Thank you all in advance.

Maestro.

Hi,

Did you clone it to a WD drive?

Regarding your comment "I have an hdd wd5000BMVW-11AMCSO USB3 that is not recognised with USB" does it show in Disk Management at all?

Your comment "The disk has symwave encryption so i connected the cloned drive to a USB wd adapter (with symwave chip) but the result is the same. No access to data" Are you using a USB PCB (like the patiant drive) or a WD My Book bridge board? if later then that wont work.

Also posting some pics of the USB PCB back & front would help

Loki

Have you seen if you have copied the key sector ?

@ dmarques yes i have copied the key sector.

@ loki The drive have been cloned on to a 3,5" wd drive.

Any ideas how to deal with this issue? The drive is cloned 100% with no errors.

If i clone the drive on a 2,5" wd usb 3 drive would make any difference?

Thanx in advance.

Maestro

I don't think so to be honest.
I would have to check it myself, because it should be working.

Hi, you need to clone it back to a simular drive (2.5")...not to a 3.5" and then via sata/usb bridge

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First I would make sure I would have a back up of the SA & ROM then I would also check the modules are ok.

Secondly I would clone the drive to a donor drive matching its PCB number etc ie like for like.

Other info:
You might also need to move the U14?
Also the sector of that holds the Key can change if it does it also changes the one in the SA module to match (then these would need changing back)


Loki