Hello FlorianK, welcome to the WD Community. There are no Red dots/lights that you could use to determine if the drive is faulty or not. If the hard drive is not responding I recommend you to try using another SATA cable or if possible another motherboard to connect it. If you feel that the hard drive is vibrating you can try running a DLG test.
I had a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 hard drive fail on me about 2 years ago. I took it to a data recovery place, and it was determined that one of the 4 heads was bad. They were able to recover 75% of the data without opening the drive, which was acceptable to me. Many of the photos are corrupted though (so I may only have half or 2/3 of the image). I've kept the drive and am playing with the idea of attempting a DIY head swap to see if I can get more off of it.
PC-3000 is one of the standard entry level packages for professionals specializing in data recovery. It allows for low level interaction with the controller firmware to facilitate firmware repairs have give more detailed status information while diagnosing failures. Typically the software sells for around $4500 though its hard to say how much you might have to pay as its usually call for quote. A friend of mine recently offered to sell me one of his old kits for $1300. I only recover data as a hobby so it was more than I wanted to spend, though it did spark my interest in what exactly makes these packages so valuable.
I have a TIAO (TUMPA) hardware which is all I need to connect Via RS232/TTL. Trying to wipe or clean the area that I set and forgot my password on my toshiba drive. The CTRL +z command in terminal does not give me the prompt as it gives you with the seagate drives. Would you happend to know what the commands are or a link for that information. Here is the link to the seagate I have mentioned. I am under the same username pcfr33k on the TIAO, HDDGURU, BUS PIRATE etc community forums. I am getting a little closer to an answer!!
I have a western digital hard drive HD5000AVCS, I have tried all other conventional methods of removing the SATA password to allow me to reformat the HDD to use in my desktop. It originally came out of a DVR unit that I no longer used.
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Victoria is a free, yet experimental hard drive tool which can be used to monitor the performance of your hard drive.The program can be useful to measure the performance of your hard drive and in case of issues, perform some minor repairs. It will display your hard drive model, size, features and some more advanced information from S.M.A.R.T. details.After scanning your hard drive's surface with Victoria, it can remap, erase and even restore data when errors are spotted.The application provides a number of configuration options as well as some advanced tools for working with hard drives.All in all, Victoria is a very handy hard drive benchmark tool which can also repair some errors.Features of Victoria SSD/HDD
The reason is that I got long ago one of those cheap USB 3.0 drives (sold by LG but the inner HDD seems to be Toshiba). It so happens that I plugged it on a USB 3.0 hub without external power and it started clicking and making noises, and mostly wouldn't work.
Fast forward a few months to yesterday, and I found the hard disk in the box while making some cleanup. I tried it again, and clicking noises again... I was about to throw it to the trash bin, when I tried something else as a last resort, and plugged it directly to the USB 3.0 ports in the mainboard: there it works perfectly!
Thing is, there are tons of SMART errors (from the past tests) on the disk, however I've done some surface tests and everything looks ok on the disk (while plugged to the powered hub, that is). So I'd like to have a way to "reset" all the smart readings so that it looks like factory-new and start testing again, see if SMART keeps giving bad readings after this.
There is no need to delete important failure information because this information does not affect you using it.To be able to compare just redirect your current SMART state by running smartmontools with a command likesmartctl -a /dev/sdX > C:\mysmartlog.txt on a windows machine where "X" stands for the drive in question.
Edit: Tools have been released since this answer that has been submitted which in fact allow some drives SMART data to be rewritten. The only way to verify the drive is to buy from reputable online sellers.
I have an older Toshiba laptop with a HDD that has been set with a password. Toshiba refer to it as an ATA password and when the laptop completes POST it asks for the HDD/SSD password to continue. I cannot boot the laptop to any other device while this HDD is installed. I have contacted Toshiba ISD as we are warranty agents for Toshiba and they say that if the password is not known the only option to recover data would be a data recovery lab, which I assume means an identical PCB would be required to access the data on the HDD. Toshiba have confirmed that the data on the drive is not encrypted but is simply protected by the ATA HDD password. When the HDD is connected to a different PC the drive appears as not initialised. Data recovery software like Disk Drill and Disk Digger have not been able to see anything on the HDD.
The owner of the laptop says that they have never created a password for the laptop and that they did not even have a Windows login password, of course I cannot check that at all. The laptop owner says this occurred after they purchased and installed a battery (Main External) from eBay and installed it. The HDD has a single reallocated sector and Toshiba have also said that it is possible that the BIOS on the laptop is misreading the HDD as being ATA HDD password protected if the HDD is faulty, but that does not explain why I am not able to see anything at all on the HDD using data recovery software.
My impression is that the data that might be on the HDD is of no importance? If so, try using DBAN or Kali or BackTrack (if you can find it) or Duke Nukem and blow away the HDD and anything else on the HDD, then reload a clean system.
To remove the OPAL lock (to switch it off) and return the disk drive into its factory default you need to supply the master drive lock password and disable the OPAL lock in BIOS or OS. Automatic OPAL lock is usually using BIOS administrator password as a master password.
If you are not in a possession of the master drive lock password you need to use PSID reverting tool (Opal encryption - OpalErase) and enter PSID disk drive code. User and/or master disk drive lock password are both different from PSID code.
The PSID revert operation removes all data from an encrypted drive (one with TCG enabled/password-protected).
A PSID revert operation cannot be performed on mounted drives or drives with mounted partitions.
Locked disk is in the SEC5 security state. In this state, you can do two things with the device: block it for all I/O or erase it completely. The lock is automatically applied after a reboot. The disk does not allow any data I/O (state: SEC4) until a SECURITY_UNLOCK command is issued stating the password, either directly at the BIOS prompt (if the drive is required for booting) or later by an operating system (if the unlock function has support in the OS) for additional data disks.
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