HGST Families for Rebranded WD Gold Models

Jared

Administrator
Staff member
So I'm starting this sticky topic to keep track of WD Gold drives that are really re-branded HGST ARM model hard drives.

Unfortunately, I have none collected yet, but I'm working on that...

Does anyone know what family works with WD4002FYYZ-01B7CB1?
 

lcoughey

Moderator
I recently helped with a remote MyBook recovery that had a Hitachi drive inside. It detected with the Hitachi utility and saved the resources there, but because of the WD encryption, it would not decrypt in DE because there is not decryption within the Hitachi utility. So, I just opened a random Western Digital utility, rather than the correct Hitachi ARM utility it was in and then was able to find the encryption details needed to decrypt in DE.
 
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