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Jun 30, 2026, 4:54:46 PM (3 days ago) Jun 30
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I have a wd50ndzw that the customer accidentally erased to hfsusing diskutility
after realizing his mistake he ran diskdrill and stopped after 1.3gb

I went through the PBA access solution and have some questions.
ACE dialed in and says there is only 1.3gb of raw stuff
and that you cant pba read the rest because its drive encrypted ?
Where does he see that
here is the virtual drive where you are supposed to start retrieving the previous T2.
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Not sure what this map shows....
These chunks that have no LBA - are these unmapped/unused gaps in the space?
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the versions tab is pretty empty
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all I seem to be able to find is current stuff
This drive was 5tb full of pictures
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Next steps are USE and refresh the virtual drive
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Trying to look around the drive I can see some non-zeros
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I dont really know what I am doing with this tool....
but it doesnt seem to give pba access to everything
only whats in the T2
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Any clues?

Thanks

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Jun 30, 2026, 5:59:57 PM (3 days ago) Jun 30
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hi original remaining content can be recalculated by 190 or by running pba mode drive calculate data sectors according to 190 rwa values in that drive it opens the decrypted space only on the sectors containing data. .
suppose when you put 190 second level translator recovery the drive calculate the remaining stuff and show us the virtual drive to work but this is the complete drive sectors which are encrypted in this model then we have to select create map via heads two times then drive shows the decrypted sectors in the drive with reference to 190 which  you had also shown in pic this is easy to calculate the data in the drive sir.  

also encrypted sectors drive wont allow to clone with head map in this model or others too like in drive which contains bitlocker this tool won't allow to head map partition directly 

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