Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[babygian]

Hello, help me please. After using Partition magic 8, my hard drive Is Locked. I tried with all software, but none solves. Someone knows the solution?

Thank you!

Screenshots:

HDDScan Identity Report 
Model: ST3250820A
Firmware: 3.AAE
Serial: 5QF2ECDQ
LBA: 488397168

Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.1
Report Date: 03/02/2010 23:44:04

Main Information 
Name  Value  
LBA Support Yes 
LBA28 268435455 
LBA48 488397168 
ATA Version 7 
Logical Sector Size 512 bytes 
Physical Sector Size 512 bytes 
Cache size 8192 KB 
ECC bytes 4 
Nominal Form factor Not Reported 
RPM Not Reported 
Interface PATA 
Connected through IDE-onboard controller 


DMA Support 
Name  Value  
DMA Support Yes 
Multiword DMA 0 Supported 
Multiword DMA 1 Supported 
Multiword DMA 2 Supported 
UDMA 0 Supported 
UDMA 1 Supported 
UDMA 2 Selected 
UDMA 3 Supported 
UDMA 4 Supported 
UDMA 5 Supported 
UDMA 6 Not Supported 


PIO Support 
Name  Value  
PIO Support Yes 
PIO 0 Supported 
PIO 1 Supported 
PIO 2 Supported 
PIO 3 Supported 
PIO 4 Supported 


Features Support 
Name  Value  
Host Protected Area (HPA) Supported 
Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) Not Supported 
Advanced Power Management (APM) Not Supported 
Power Management Supported 
Read look-ahead Enabled 
Write cache Enabled 
Password Protection Enabled 
SMART Enabled 
Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) Supported 
General Purpose Logging (GPL) Supported 
Streaming feature Not Supported 
SMART self-test Supported 
SMART error log Supported 
SCT Command Transport Not Supported 

 

[fzabkar]

Try HDAT2:

http://www.hdat2.com

See section M8 of the User Manual (Security Menu):

http://www.hdat2.com/files/hdat2en_v11.pdf

[babygian]

hola, al parecer la pila estaba fallando y el disco duro se bloqueó. El HADT2 no lo puede desbloquear ni borrar, me pide password:

En Security menu dice:

SECURITY: ENABLED/LOCKED/MAXIMUM

Alguién conoce alguna forma de desbloquear o borrar el disco duro? Y el password cómo lo puedo conseguir o dónde esta?

Estaré muy agradecido por sus comentarios y sugerencia.

Thanks!

[babygian]

hi, apparently the battery was failing and the hard drive was blocked. The HADT2 can not unlock or delete, it asks me password:

In the Security menu says:

SECURITY: ENABLED / LOCKED / MAXIMUM

Anybody know any way to unlock or erase the hard drive? And the password how or where can I get this?

I'll be very grateful for your comments and suggestions.

Thanks!

[fzabkar]

The HDAT2 user manual states ...

"In Maximum security mode, one can not unlock the disk without knowing the passwords. One way to reuse the disk is to issue the SECURITY ERASE PREPARE command followed by SECURITY ERASE UNIT. However, The SECURITY ERASE UNIT command will require the Master password and all data will be erased as a result."

I think you may need help from a data recovery specialist. :-(

See ...

http://forum.hddguru.com/hard-disk-drives-data-recovery-and-repair-f1.html

[fzabkar]

Does this help? It's for a 2.5" drive, but maybe the principles are similar.

ATA-Password on a Seagate 2.5" IDE? Any way to remove it?

http://forum.hddguru.com/ata-password-seagate-ide-any-way-remove-t8755.html