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Matatack

Post subject: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 13th, 2015, 14:56

Joined: July 13th, 2015, 14:47
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Location: FRANCE

Hello,
I tried the MHDD program in MASTER, without success !

The BIOS has no password (supervisor and user is CLEAR), but the HDD yes !

When the hard drive is connected via USB to a computer, it appears as uninitialized !

I do not want to lose the data, I am lost !

The firmware is: 01.01A01 , no bad sector...

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TXRanger

Post subject: Re: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 13th, 2015, 15:09

Joined: February 12th, 2008, 18:21
Posts: 25

Are you saying that the WD5000BPVT has the ATA password set? If that is the case, MHDD would probably read all sectors as "Abort". Is that your case? What is the background, what happened to the drive when it quit working?

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Matatack

Post subject: Re: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 13th, 2015, 15:22

Joined: July 13th, 2015, 14:47
Posts: 6
Location: FRANCE

Yes, it's probably a password in EEPROM.
The eight-character password has just been forgotten

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unknown

Post subject: Re: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 13th, 2015, 17:35

Joined: October 21st, 2007, 8:48
Posts: 1712

The password not stored in the EEPROM, it stored in SA.

A professional intervention needed if data is important.

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Matatack

Post subject: Re: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 13th, 2015, 18:21

Joined: July 13th, 2015, 14:47
Posts: 6
Location: FRANCE

A fake update (s p o o f) of firmware on the hard drive could solve my problem ?

What happens if i initializes the hard drive on Windows ?

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Matatack

Post subject: Re: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 13th, 2015, 18:48

Joined: July 13th, 2015, 14:47
Posts: 6
Location: FRANCE

hddguru.com could make a SPOOF ?

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dick

Post subject: Re: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 14th, 2015, 4:02

Joined: January 8th, 2008, 5:21
Posts: 927
Location: uk

Quote:

What happens if i initializes the hard drive on Windows ?

If you want your important data back then don't! If the data is not required then give it a try.

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Matatack

Post subject: Re: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 14th, 2015, 6:32

Joined: July 13th, 2015, 14:47
Posts: 6
Location: FRANCE

Thus the initialization of the hard disk will make me lose all the data ?

With a program as ActiveFileRecovery i can get back the data after this operation ?

Or the data are coded by the PWD HDD ?

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 14th, 2015, 8:12

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
Posts: 7864
Location: UK

If the HDD is PWD protected then you won't be able to read OR write, so the question is academic.

I believe there is "WD DIY password removal" thread on this forum, so if the data is not that important and you want to risk DIY stuff then search it. :-)

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Matatack

Post subject: Re: WD5000BPVT protected by PWD

Posted: July 14th, 2015, 15:17

Joined: July 13th, 2015, 14:47
Posts: 6
Location: FRANCE

Sediv looks good, but i have to find a approved tutorial

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