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The drive experienced a short-circuit on its PCB, which subsequently damaged the CPU. Fortunately, the ROM remains intact, and prior to the CPU failure, I was able to retrieve some modules from the drive.

I transferred the original ROM to a donor PCB and powered on the drive. It is now being recognized, and PC-3000 displays all the hard drive information correctly. However, the data appears to be encrypted. I attempted to decrypt it using PC-3000, but the software could not locate the encryption key.

To address this, I wrote some modules back to the drive. After doing so, PC-3000 was able to detect the encryption key, yet the data remains encrypted. I also tried disabling the Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option in the "Edit HDD ID" settings, but this did not resolve the issue.

Drive had PCB 2060-800067

Could you please provide guidance on how to proceed? Recovering this data is extremely important to me.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

Best regards,
tarasheh

Probably the encryption key is in the CPU, now I don't remember the model but some WD are not yet workable with PC3K so after unlocking the ROM, you correct the firmware errors and reuse the original PCB to decrypt the data, or you use the SATA one and you carry around the ROM + CPU

The capacitor and resistor around MCU show zero on the multimeter and most likely that IC is burnt out. how can i get data without orginal cpu?

if the ecryption is in the MCU recovery is game over, but u can ask to Roman or ts support, or u can try at put MCU on PCB donor, if encryption is confirmed in MCU.

Why is this model like this? it must have other way
How can I ask them my question?

tarasheh wrote:Source of the post The capacitor and resistor around MCU show zero on the multimeter and most likely that IC is burnt out. how can i get data without orginal cpu?

Tarasheh,
Core lines around the MCU measure a few ohms, which may not be detected by uncalibrated analog multimeters. Use a digital multimeter to check again; your MCU might still be functional.