My WD HDD got locked out by password protected

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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I was messing around with HDAT2, and my HDD got locked out by password protected, and my drive has a freeze on it.

I tried using Kill CMOS, but it did no good. I tried KillDisk to zerofill the drive, but there are errors on my disk sectors. I’m using HBCD for all my tools. I tried using DBAN, and that is taken over 15,000 hours. I’m not waiting for a couple of years. Lol.

Could anyone help me fix this ASAP by removing the HPA freeze, and the password protected? Does anyone have a copy of HBCD, so someone could me what tools to use?

Please reply back ASAP.

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go find a tool called HDERASE which can do a secure wipe

See the bottom of my SSD page for the link

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I have HDDerase 4.0, but it hangs on me. It says NONE, or something like that at command prompt. I don’t have another PC. I have a blank PC right now.

I was thinking of this: running HDD Regenerator first to correct the bad sectors, and after that run KillDisk to wipe the zeros track. Will that work?

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hderase can take some time, leave it for a hour or so

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I was reading in Google that people with HDDerase v4.0 hangs on them. I was also reading that HDDerase is for SSD. I don’t have a SSD drive. I have a internal WD drive. ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0. That’s the drive I have.

Would my option work above?

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That tool will work with a HD or SSD without issue

I simply have not updated other web pages, I have hundreds of them on the go

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It doesn’t work for me.

With Victoria, MHDD they both read as DRSC not ready.

What other tools are there?

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If those tool report not ready, it could be the disk has failed

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Alright,

Will you answer my above question? Will it work if I run HDD Regenerator first to fix bad sectors, and then run KillDisk to do a one pass zeros?

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No harm trying regenerator or any other tool now

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I remember when my HDD was working, and Victoria, MHDD, and HDDerase never worked for me, not even once. HDAT2 does work but I locked, and froze HPA using that tool, and I also done something with that tools to give bad sectors starting at 0 through my entire drive. I’m not sure what I done.

I have regenerator running.

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how is it managing so far?

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I’m out right now. I’m on my Apple iPhone.

The last I checked, it was still scanning, and found every sector starting with zero bad. After scanning, I hope it can repair it.

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lemme know how it fairs

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If this does recover sectors. Should I run KillDisk at Gutmann wipe, one pass zeros?

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sure, give it a try

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Gutmann, or zero pass?

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try both