my wd my passport ultra keeps asking me to unlock it

After this fix, I'm using this drive TODAY with zero issues. I personally went from 130KB/s scan i/o speed in testdisk to 11-13MB/s after the fix, and I was able to recover data at +100MB/s from as far back as the very first time I used my similar drive.

Spildit (Manual Method of doing this) & Scott Dwyer (Author of hddsupertool) This means the tiniest vibration, a slight cord stretch, or fairies bangin' on the platters. The re-lo list contains info about which sectors need to be relocated, which in WD's case happens quite nearly every time on a failed read. What you've just done: You've cleared the SMART status, and the file relocation list.

Note: It may tell you it's failed on the final step. Run as root, select the device, and select the VSC entry.Ĥ) WD royl (Marvel) patch mod 02 (slow fix)ġ) Read the module to a file and create the patch.Ģ) Write the patched data back to the disk.ĥ) WD royl (Marvel) patch mod 32 (slow fix)Īnd perform entries 1 & 2 again (reading mod, patching, and writing back) Step 2) Get yourself hddsupertool (Unless you follow the manual method linked later) here. Step 1) Make sure the drive can be seen on the bus: This slows down each and every sector operation on disk, including checking KEKs due to the wonky way they've made their firmware. WD have neutered their drives to 'proactively' mark perfectly good sectors for relocation when they don't actually need it. Western Digital has very much dropped the ball in regards to providing data storage solutions the past few years.Ĭan you get on linux? Even with a LiveCD/LiveUSB? If you can, then I bet the slow fix will do you good.

My wd my passport ultra keeps asking me to unlock it