Posted: 5/10/2016 4:09:51 PM EDT
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Found a hard drive at work (I'm an IT guy) and it's locked with ATA enhanced security. Don't care about the data that's on the drive, just would like to make use of it... Can't just bring my self to toss a 1tb drive...
Anyway, no clue as to what the password is. I've tried everything I can think of with windows and Linux to reset the drive and disable the ATA lock... Anyone have any ideas to disable the ATA crap? |
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Depending on what security level is set on the drive 10 failed password attempts will cause the drive to perform a self wipe and then unlock.
If they don't have that security level set then i know of no way to unlock the driver otherwise. Brute force attempts are problematic because after several failed attempts the drive requires that you power cycle the drive to make more attempts. |
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Depending on what security level is set on the drive 10 failed password attempts will cause the drive to perform a self wipe and then unlock. If they don't have that security level set then i know of no way to unlock the driver otherwise. Brute force attempts are problematic because after several failed attempts the drive requires that you power cycle the drive to make more attempts. Interesting. I will have to try that out. I've read that it's possible to reset it... Just haven't found a method that works. HDPARM shows me a ton of info about the drive. It's not frozen thankfully. |
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Interesting. I will have to try that out. I've read that it's possible to reset it... Just haven't found a method that works. HDPARM shows me a ton of info about the drive. It's not frozen thankfully. Quoted:
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Depending on what security level is set on the drive 10 failed password attempts will cause the drive to perform a self wipe and then unlock. If they don't have that security level set then i know of no way to unlock the driver otherwise. Brute force attempts are problematic because after several failed attempts the drive requires that you power cycle the drive to make more attempts. Interesting. I will have to try that out. I've read that it's possible to reset it... Just haven't found a method that works. HDPARM shows me a ton of info about the drive. It's not frozen thankfully. Some bioses "freeze" the security features of the drive to stop malware from using ATA security features against a user. Its done by the bios at each boot. Drives can only be frozen if they are already unlocked. You can use the HDPARM command to try unlocking the drive and see if you can kick in the security wipe. Unfortunately, if the drive was not locked with that level of protection I don't know how else to disable the security. |
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Some bioses "freeze" the security features of the drive to stop malware from using ATA security features against a user. Its done by the bios at each boot. Drives can only be frozen if they are already unlocked. You can use the HDPARM command to try unlocking the drive and see if you can kick in the security wipe. Unfortunately, if the drive was not locked with that level of protection I don't know how else to disable the security. Quoted:
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Depending on what security level is set on the drive 10 failed password attempts will cause the drive to perform a self wipe and then unlock. If they don't have that security level set then i know of no way to unlock the driver otherwise. Brute force attempts are problematic because after several failed attempts the drive requires that you power cycle the drive to make more attempts. Interesting. I will have to try that out. I've read that it's possible to reset it... Just haven't found a method that works. HDPARM shows me a ton of info about the drive. It's not frozen thankfully. Some bioses "freeze" the security features of the drive to stop malware from using ATA security features against a user. Its done by the bios at each boot. Drives can only be frozen if they are already unlocked. You can use the HDPARM command to try unlocking the drive and see if you can kick in the security wipe. Unfortunately, if the drive was not locked with that level of protection I don't know how else to disable the security. I'm going to have to try that some more. Quickly attempted that the other day but without any luck... |