WD My Passport Essential WDBAAA5000ABK - keeps asking for a password. #44
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Long story short: a friend lost access to her trusty portable drive and here we are.
Steps I took:
- (windows) from disk management, no partitions detected and asking to put a new label on the disk to make it usable. (hell no)
- (windows) WD tools (WD Security & WD Drive Utilities) are asking for a password to unlock the drive. My friend ensures she never put a password and was using the drive like this for a long time.
- (linux) tried to ddrescue over USB: I/O error - access denied on all sectors
- start reading (whoa, data recovery is something else!)
- (linux) tried to use HDDSuperTool over the USB interface - nothing works, not even drive detection
At this point I call my friend and explains her that she - or needs a professional firm to look at this - or yolo and hope for the best. She tells me to go ahead as the data is important but not worth the money.
- Soldered a sata interface on the disk and disabled the usb interface.
- (linux) drive is detected, HDDSuperTool shows only a master password and no user password, ddrescue creates a full dump.
- (windows) R-Studio does not detect anything on the image, the data must be encrypted, start reading again.
- (linux) use reallymine to try to decrypt the image and it asks me again for a password.
What would be the next logical step?
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