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maxword5
 Post subject: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 19th, 2007, 17:49 
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salam alekm hello why any type of hdd suddenly locked plz i want explain to lock and how to unlock in steps
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PostPosted: July 19th, 2007, 18:46 
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?

Bit vague!

U need PC3000 my friend.

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maxword5
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 19th, 2007, 22:57 
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salam alekm

why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it and i have pc3k plz what to do
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rchadwick
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 20th, 2007, 0:04 
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Have you tried unlocking it with your PC3000? What kind of drive? How do you know it's locked.

If you want help, you'll have to supply a lot more details.
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maxword5
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 20th, 2007, 11:36 
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salam alekm tests of heads gives errors in head 3 and 5 the hdd is locked with master password its wd 1600guc0 when i make unlock with pc3k gives error message freeze locked
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salvationlaura
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 26th, 2007, 4:35 
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Dear Friend, what brand of your hard disk? use SalvationDATA products.

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rameez
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 26th, 2007, 12:51 
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just reset pwd using Pc3k .
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sceggy
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 26th, 2007, 15:16 
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Could also try HDDRock - had some success recently.

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rameez
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 28th, 2007, 12:37 
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whats hdd rock ?
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rchadwick
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PostPosted: July 28th, 2007, 20:03 
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I've heard of it recently. Is it any good? Can you actually brute force most drives quickly?
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bsnyder
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PostPosted: July 29th, 2007, 12:46 
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If the drive's on the Supported Drive List, yes, it'll unlock very quickly.

If it's not on the list, you can create a custom word and/or character set to try and brute-force the password. That will obviously take much longer :|
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sceggy
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Like any tool, HDDRock should be part of an arsenal of weapons. There is a supported list (as with any tool) to make some actions easier, but brute force is often theonly way insome cases.

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rameez
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 30th, 2007, 14:10 
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bruteforce with 32 characters would take a month .
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darkforce1
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 30th, 2007, 14:17 
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what about disk freezing. after limited numbers of try.

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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 30th, 2007, 14:34 
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darkforce1 wrote:
what about disk freezing. after limited numbers of try.

DF


:shock:

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pepe
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PostPosted: July 30th, 2007, 16:05 
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Hi,

AFAIK after 3 bad tries the drive needs a power cycle. This will make the process take an eternity :)

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Dmitry Postrigan
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 31st, 2007, 19:18 
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pepe, a correction: after 5 bad times hard drive needs a hardware reset (or a power cycle, which is much longer but not really needed in this situation)

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pepe
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: July 31st, 2007, 19:50 
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Hi,

thanx Maysoft. It was about 4 years ago I dealt with this question last time. That's why I wrote AFAIK :)

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darkforce1
 Post subject: Re: why hdd locked suddenly without someone lock it
PostPosted: August 1st, 2007, 6:50 
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Ok I too acknowledge

Thanks
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hddguru
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PostPosted: August 5th, 2007, 14:01 
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Guess WD Master PSWD is still "WDWDWDWDWDWD" >32bytes

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