Western Digital USB 3.0 SED drive with SA locked Recovery

[w.simon]

Hello

I have made a video from a case, i was faced to, recover data from an external USB My passport from Western Digital, familly Hubble (Newer are HubbleLT).
The SA on thoses drive is locked.

The video is around half Hour explaining how i could get the data from the HDD.



1 SA unlock
2 SA repair (for this case slow fix)
3 data imaging and extraction Setup
4 SA relock
5 decrypted data extraction

The purchase link by paypal

Video Download link is sent to paypal email. I send them manually so  there can be a couple of  hours to  wait before the mail arrives.

[liam.dolphin]

Thanks for sharing.
It is a good learn

[pclab]

Excelent work and great case study.
Thank You W.Simon.

[AzRAel_666]

Very good Mr Simon!

[Flash]

Many thanks William ... i have a similar case and this help me to solve my case ... Great :-)

[thientankt]

i get many WD ultra passport with this error

convert to sata, short PCB and SED unlock

decrypt data then export very quickly

[DATA_RECOVERY_FACTORY]

I remove the condensers on read write channel,
convert it to sata on the same pcb.
Repair the disk on dolphin.....FW REPAIR and slow read fix.
put the four condensers back
image it on deepspar or DDE by dolphin.
No need to do a SA unlock by this method.

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

I remove the condensers on read write channel,
convert it to sata on the same pcb.
Repair the disk on dolphin.....FW REPAIR and slow read fix.
put the four condensers back
image it on deepspar or DDE by dolphin.
No need to do a SA unlock by this method.

Mr Arora ,
      This is a Good Method to Solve Such Cases Also .Good To Know Something different then What i Do

[DATA_RECOVERY_FACTORY]

I remove the condensers on read write channel,
convert it to sata on the same pcb.
Repair the disk on dolphin.....FW REPAIR and slow read fix.
put the four condensers back
image it on deepspar or DDE by dolphin.
No need to do a SA unlock by this method.

Mr Arora ,
      This is a God Method to Solve Such Cases Also .Good To Know Something different then What i Do

This method which i do is explained on various sites to repair FIRMWARE.But if we put back the condensers, then the data comes in as normal too, encryptation problem is also solved.

[shahi]

Is the method applicable to the drives which are SA Locked ex: WD20NMVW-11EDZS2 ? As those drives has no Access to SA