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Okay, I was afraid that would be the answer haha. Thank you anyway, Jared! :)

Hi, I'm trying to recover data from a client's 2TB Western Digital Passport (MDL: WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0). The drive is in perfect condition physically, and I'm able to image it completely with PC-3000 software. But the data is encrypted, beyond just native WD encryption, which PC-3000 can decrypt...

Thank you Larry that script looks perfect!

So because of the way Time Machine creates hard-linked filesystems, extracting the entire backups.backupdb folder will take many more times the amount of space than it actually should since data extractor treats each backup as it's own seperate file tree and you end up with many, many...

Aah ok that explains the difficulty. Bummer, I can't use this current NAS for it then, but it will still be useful for backups. It's interesting that most of the data extractor functionality is fine. For example, I can create a task, image a drive, etc but maps and file explorer are the only...

I am migrating from local storage to a NAS, and I have the drive mounted in windows. Whenever I save images to the NAS, I get this error in PC3K, I tried googling it but couldn't find a solution. Is there any way to make Data Extractor play nicely with NAS storage? This is Windows 10 with a NFS...

Awesome thank y'all for the suggestions :)

We are looking to get better versions of some of our cleanroom tools. In particular, we have been pretty underwhelmed with our sets of tweezers. Does anybody have any they use that they particularly like? What about needle-nose pliers?

I would be greatly appreciative if you could help! I'll be in the office tomorrow (Mon) from 12:00PM to 6:00PM PST, but can make pretty much any time any weekday work after 10AMPST. I'll PM you my contact details

Based on my understanding of these drives, there's a decent chance that this would work, but of course there's only one way to know for sure :mrgreen:

I have a peculiar problem with a WD drive, I will gladly pay somebody a $50 USD bounty via paypal (or equivalent crypto if available on coinbase) if they have the correct solution. Drive model: WD5000AAKS-75V0A0 Symptoms: Clicking on startup, no ID, stuck in BSY Heads: 2 (0 and 1) What I have...

Figured it out, turns on under "Edit HDD ID" I had to disable both "drive is locked" and 'self-encrypting drive'. Problem solved :D

I have a WD40EZRX-00SPEB0 drive which is presenting with puzzling symptoms. It IDs correctly and all UA sectors give ABR error. Attempting to start utility results in PC3K thinking that the drive is ATA locked and SED locked. After disabling SA access in ROM, I was able to check modules (all...

Hi Jared, Thank you for your suggestion! I tried your fix (shorted the drive and issued a spin-down command as soon as I got terminal access). At first it just gave me a new error code, but then a minute or two later it miraculously booted up correctly and was able to ID with correct capacity...

Hey y'all, I've got a Seagate 3.5" drive that's stuck in busy. Using PC-3000 software, I was able to apply a Tech Mode Unlock, but I get an error message in the terminal: LED:00000047 FAddr:FFFFFFFE. Tried disabling File 93 via terminal and shorting the read channel. This allows momentary...