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michael chiklis
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: July 30th, 2013, 9:41 
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Hello, i'm not sure how to edit heads on ram with WDR.
Someone can help me please?
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Is this right?

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hddguy
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: July 30th, 2013, 11:37 
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Try "0 1 2 3 0 5"
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hddguy
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: July 30th, 2013, 11:38 
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craig6928 wrote:
hddguy wrote:
The head does not report a failure during startup, but when trying to load translator it detects an error on one or more heads and translator cannot properly initialize (as PCImage already stated). It has nothing to do with P-List or the translator - it is a physical issue with one head.

Also, you need to identify the position of the key and check whether this is accessible under one of the good heads, if not you need to restore it from a copy of SA.

Without it this wont decrypt, despite talk of 'backdoors' ...


so let say that the encrytion key is in the sa area hidden in plain sight.
if you reverse engineer it your find a backdoor



You are using valid backup key to decrypt - this is not a backdoor. Try to set a password through the Smartware then try to find a backdoor...
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craig6928
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: July 31st, 2013, 5:48 
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there is always a back door to decrypt anything.
for a start the usa goverment requires this by law
for manufactories to tell them how to bypass any type of encryption that someone has.
which would be a encrypted pgp over 40 keys.

you simply bypass the valid code or make it think you put the correct code in.


there be a modified version of Smartware which they would use.

and also a modified test board they put on the drive
run this there is all your data to be seen.



anything can be reverse engineer but illegal in some countries

if you paid western digital money they would simply decrypt your drive at the factory
but its very costly and kept very secret how they do this

only way to keep data from anyone is destroy it with a hammer and that includes the circuit board

somewhere on every hard drive is a hidden backup where it would tell the history of the drive
that would be everything from the internet to emails.
but nobody has found it and more likely will never.
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michael chiklis
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: August 4th, 2013, 12:14 
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Head map on ram seem to not work.
After head map edit on ram i push the button for "drive info", the drive is still detect as 2000 GB. Is this normal?
I tried a lot of different head maps, but i still see as 2000 GB drive, maybe WDR 3.2 bug ?

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PostPosted: August 4th, 2013, 13:15 
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michael chiklis wrote:
Head map on ram seem to not work.
After head map edit on ram i push the button for "drive info", the drive is still detect as 2000 GB. Is this normal?
I tried a lot of different head maps, but i still see as 2000 GB drive, maybe WDR 3.2 bug ?


Why are you expecting the capacity to change?

You are not depopping a head, just temporarily disabling it in RAM, so no firmware is being changed and therefore the capacity will not change.

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michael chiklis
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: August 4th, 2013, 13:49 
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Ohhh ok.
So after i do head map edit i can clone the drive on a new 2TB, right?
The problem is that i don't know how windows will react when it will see the drive with head map edit on RAM and if software as DMDE or WinHex will be able to clone it.
Unfortunately i don't have UDMA DE to clone it outside the O.S. and WDR doesn't have an option for cloning:(

P.S.
PC3000 PCI shuts down when i try to load this type of drives

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 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
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Unless you have a way of imaging by head, then you are wasting your time :-(

E.g. PC3K UDMA.

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michael chiklis
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: August 4th, 2013, 15:38 
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Ok understood.
One more thing...
i was trying to do the ROM repair when i see error on MOD 107
Attachment:
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i didn't confirm "repair" due to error

In SA i don't see mod 107 :?
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MOD 107 where is.JPG
MOD 107 where is.JPG [ 118.29 KiB | Viewed 13350 times ]


Is this normal or a symptom of something else?

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jono-ats
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: August 4th, 2013, 15:40 
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craig6928 wrote:
there is always a back door to decrypt anything.
for a start the usa goverment requires this by law
for manufactories to tell them how to bypass any type of encryption that someone has.
which would be a encrypted pgp over 40 keys.

you simply bypass the valid code or make it think you put the correct code in.


there be a modified version of Smartware which they would use.

and also a modified test board they put on the drive
run this there is all your data to be seen.

anything can be reverse engineer but illegal in some countries

if you paid western digital money they would simply decrypt your drive at the factory
but its very costly and kept very secret how they do this

only way to keep data from anyone is destroy it with a hammer and that includes the circuit board

somewhere on every hard drive is a hidden backup where it would tell the history of the drive
that would be everything from the internet to emails.
but nobody has found it and more likely will never.


Do you know this for a fact, or are you speculating?

AFAIK, WD does not offer any decryption options, backdoors, or "send it to the factory" service.

We're WD Partners; I've asked about this.

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HaQue
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: August 4th, 2013, 16:02 
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There are enough reverse engineers around to uncover things like this

There are many backdoors but not in everything. We are seeing things lately that are extremely robust where even the NSA would probably fif it difficult to break

The hidden but on each hdd containing Internet to emails .. No that one I don't buy. Why would they bother
It would be potentially devastating to the company to pull that type of shenanigans and get caught.
Logistically it would be difficult. They would have to write seperate modules for win/Mac/Linux etc. it's just not realistic

You've been watching too much snowden v NSA man :)
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BlackST
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
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Duplicated post, sorry.
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michael chiklis
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: August 5th, 2013, 11:22 
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Someone does know something about mod 107?

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hddguy
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PostPosted: August 12th, 2013, 5:27 
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michael chiklis wrote:
Someone does know something about mod 107?


Your ROM is external, so 107 should be empty.
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michael chiklis
 Post subject: Re: WD My Book Essential with drive WD20EACS-11BHUB0 encrypt
PostPosted: August 12th, 2013, 5:41 
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Thank you hddguy, i gave back the drive to the owner.
Problem is on head 4, with WDR i could do head edit map on ram but i can't clone the drive on head 0-1-2-3-5
WDR head map edit on ram it's useless if doesn't have option to clone on other heads :lol:

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