{"id":276,"date":"2010-09-17T14:43:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T13:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/?p=276"},"modified":"2010-09-17T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T13:43:46","slug":"western-digital-hard-disk-password-hdparm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"western digital hard disk password remover with hdparm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>You should know already that you can do this on your own risk\/responsibility. No guarantee that this will work in your case.<\/strong><br \/>\nFor removing the password lock you need a live linux cd\/stick [I&#8217;ve done this using fedora 13 live cd]. Boot the linux and with <code>hdparm -I \/dev\/sda<\/code> you can see the security parameters:<br \/>\n<code>Security:<br \/>\nMaster password revision code = 65534<br \/>\nsupported<br \/>\nenabled<br \/>\nlocked<br \/>\nnot frozen<br \/>\nnot expired<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Tested on western digital WDC WD2500YS:<br \/>\nyou should read <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.die.net\/man\/8\/hdparm\">here<\/a> about hdparm parameters.<\/p>\n<pre id=\"terminal\">hdparm --security-unlock WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCW \/dev\/sda<\/pre>\n<pre id=\"terminal\">hdparm --security-disable WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCW \/dev\/sda<\/pre>\n<p>You should see smth like:<br \/>\n<code>\/dev\/sda:<br \/>\n Issuing SECURITY_UNLOCK command, password=\"WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCW\", user=master<br \/>\n\/dev\/sda:<br \/>\n Issuing SECURITY_DISABLE command, password=\"WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCW\", user=master<\/code><\/p>\n<p>after checking with <code>hdparm -I \/dev\/sda:<\/code> you should see:<br \/>\n<code>Security:<br \/>\nMaster password revision code = 65534<br \/>\nsupported<br \/>\nnot enabled<br \/>\nnot locked<br \/>\nnot frozen<br \/>\nnot expired: security count<\/code><\/p>\n<p>That means your hard drive is unlocked.<\/p>\n<p>If you see smth like: <code>expired: security count<\/code> it means that you have tried more than 3 times invalid password and you should reset(power cicle) the drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should know already that you can do this on your own risk\/responsibility. No guarantee that this will work in your case. For removing the password lock you need a live linux cd\/stick [I&#8217;ve done this using fedora 13 live cd]. Boot the linux and with hdparm -I \/dev\/sda you can see the security parameters: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.toderu.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}