PC-3000 Forum

I have a SED encrypted device (WDC WD20NMVW-11AV3S2, no SATA interface, USB only) that when originally locked and plugged in to Windows, would show a ~8MB partition with a tool called "WD Unlocker.exe", used to unlock the device. I have managed to remove the SED feature from the device and also managed to find the decryption key in the SA (I don't know where auto-detect found it, and it won't let me export/see what it is, I would like to be able to export it if possible), which works just fine with auto-decryption.
However, after removing the SED, plugging in to a computer will show an unknown 0MB sized disk, which you can't read at all via OS interface, but I can still read it just fine in sector edit via COM + USB.

It shows up fine in the Marvell USB/COM utility


The issue at hand is that I cannot start a data extraction task in sector edit as it is disabled/grayed out:


And it doesn't show up in the data extraction tool new task interface either:


How can I extract all data from this disk? The only way I can read it's data / where it shows up is in "Sector Edit".

Do you have the users password?

gterry wrote:Do you have the users password?

Unfortunately not, but as I mentioned, I have the decryption key and can read the unencrypted data, I just needed to somehow extract the data, but it doesn't show up on the Data Extractor.

So even if you extract the data it will still be encrypted because the user placed a password on it. Did you perform the SATA bypass on it or use a compatible SATA PCB with the original ROM installed on it?

You could also create a ticket and have ACE remote into it.

It turns out I just needed to press Windows (With the windows icon) -> Data Extractor (With the utility open), though it is really weird that the data extractor button wasn't clickable (grayed out) if I should have been able to press it and also that the data extractor didn't show my disk if it wasn't specifically opened in the way specified.