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Should I remove the NTFS partition that was created on top of the drive as well as the HPA?ДЄIUI, the bridge firmware divides the drive into several sections.ДЄIUI, the firmware expects to find the key sector at a certain offset from the end of the drive. Is there a risk to destroy the data by removing the HPA? I'm currently connecting to the drive directly using an USB adapter, not the USB bridge. I'm using an Asus laptop, but I know the drive passed to an other person before me so maybe he used a Gigabyte mobo, I don't know. Your can use tools such as HDAT2, hdparm, MHDD to remove the HPA. GigaByte's Xpress Recovery BIOS grabs approximately 2000 sectors from the end of the drive and hides a backup copy of itself inside a Host Protected Area (HPA). I suspect that you, or your friend, may have attached your drive to the SATA port of a GigaByte motherboard (or perhaps Asus).

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The full native capacity of the drive should be 1953525168 sectors, so it appears that your drive may have a HPA with a size of around 2000 sectors. I think the data is still there because I can still see a lot of encrypted data on the disk. I don't think removing the partition will be enough, there is probably data to put back.Д¬an someone by chance tell me which data that should be in place of the partition table? However when I mount the drive without USB Bridge I get a NTFS partition so I guess someone made a partition on it and (quick) formated the drive. I checked sector 1953517576 and key/password looks correct: However when I try to unlock the drive I get 'bad password'. I have the password to the drive, I'm sure it's good because it's her kid's names. After a while I managed to flash it using 'Apollo 1607E Firmware Updater v2.018-v2.019 (1.0.8.6).exe' and now the drive is mounting as well as the VCD. When I plugged it, it identified as the Initio combo device and wouldn't mount the drive. I requested the USB bridge and was lucky because they recovered it from the trash. First I was given the disk out of its enclosure, It's working well, I started to recover data from it and noticed the docs from the VCD and understood why the rest of the data was gibberish. Unfortunately I'm not the first one to try so disk has been altered. We designed a small box and used recycled material to minimize waste.I'm trying to help a friend by recovery her photos from a WD My Book Essential. USB-powered directly from the USB port on your PC. * A model with disabled encryption is also available. Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access with password protection and encryption.*

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