my passport 070a use for both pc and mac

My Passport 070A Use For Both Pc And Password For The

Dont be sorry. As you say you have the PC3000 UDMA, did you buy it from acelabs or deepspar within the last year if so then you can contact Acelab for assistance as you will have technical support.

Good Day Data Recovery Professionals, I have a WD 500gb 070A Passport which is write protected.

HDD is detected in device manager but not visible in explorer.

In my (limited) experience, a write-protected status is a result of something else (e.g.

The real problem needs to be diagnosed and fixed, and then the drive will no longer be write-protected.

My Passport 070A Use For Both Pc And Password For The

Using PC 3000 UDMA, There is no user or master password for the drive.

How do you guys think Ill go around this problem I need to recover the files by the end of the month.

This suggests that the USB-SATA bridge IC is functional, but that there may be something wrong with the HDD behind the bridge, or maybe that its file system is corrupt.

You also say that the HDD is not visible in other freeware HDD tools, so this would suggest a physical problem with the HDD.

Im assuming that you tried to examine the drive with a disc editor.

AIUI, the drive will have a 12-pin header with two TxRx pins that allow access to the drives serial console.

AIAI, with all the other ports isnt it unnecessary Unfortunately PC3000 is human driven, otherwise it would be a luxury doorstop (quite expensive too).

Just to clarify you can get the media is write protected if the WD Smartware password is enabled.

The attachment My Passport - Write Protected.png is no longer available Regarding connecting the drive to PC3000 UDMA.

Use the 4 pin Toshiba connector (Check) USE pc3000 UDMA (Check).

What to do after I connect this Sorry for being a noob at this.

What command should I use to remove the write protect status Thanks a lot.

If you really have PC3000 you should have no problems especially about ASSISTANCE.

P.S. this kind of discussions are not welcome and usually lead to no answerignorereport thread with subsequent action - unlocking PW removal etc.

If you dont have support or its expired then you will need to renew it.

My Passport 070A Use For Both Pc And Mac