The document discusses WD USB HDD Image Un-locker Pro-JMS538S, a tool that helps unlock and recover data from WD USB hard drives with the JMS538S controller chip. It supports Passport and My Book drives and allows imaging an encrypted USB drive to an unlocked SATA drive after removing the USB PCB and firmware chip. The tool decrypts the image on the SATA drive without needing soldering skills or risking damage to PCB components during recovery.

1. WD USB HDD Image Un‐locker Pro‐
JMS538S
http://www.dolphindatalab.com/wd‐usb‐hdd‐image‐un‐locker‐pro‐jms538s
WD USB HDD Image Un‐locker Pro‐JMS538S is one professional WD USB hard drive image unlocker.
This tool is designed to help users with higher USB hdd data recovery efficiency and success for
USB hard drives whose PCB main controller IC model is JMS538S.
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INIC1607e

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WD USB HDD Image Un‐locker Pro‐JMS538S supports both WD 2.5 my passport and 3.5 my book
USB hard drives. The most important is that users need to confirm the main controller ic model by
uninstalling the PCB and check the square chip near the USB interface.

3. For WD USB hard drives‐my passport series, all data coming to the USB interface become
encrypted due to the hardware encryption technology used by the USB controller chip. This is done
automatically whether you set password or not. If your WD USB hard drive has a model
of JMS538S on its main controller IC, you can use WD USB HDD Image Un‐locker Pro‐JMS538S to
unlock the USB hdd image after you are able to image the USB hdd to one good SATA hdd. Please
note: if the original USB hdd is encrypted by some special software like WD smartware, this one
cannot be fixed by our tool so far. It's very easy to use WD USB HDD Image Un‐locker Pro‐
JMS538S: 1, Remove the U14 from the original USB PCB and insert it to the chip holder of the
unlocker pro; 2, Insert the target SATA hdd to the hdd holder; 3, Connect the external power supply
and power on the hdd; 4, Connect USB cable and you will find the new target hdd in the pc and
the data is recognized. It's necessary to learn WD USB hard drive=WD SATA hard drive
elements+USB‐SATA elements. The key elements on one WD usb hard drives are U12‐ROM chip;
U14‐USB firmware controlling chip and the main controller IC. When users are trying to repair and
recover lost data from USB hard drives, it is necessary to convert the USB interface to SATA interface
or change the USB PCB to compatible SATA PCB. USB adapter is sometimes useful when the USB‐
SATA part of the hard drive is good. After users are able to connect the USB hard drives and handle
on it and finally able to image the USB hdd to a good target hdd, users may not extract the data as
well due to the encryption and at this time, users need to use the original PCB board including the
main controller ic and U14 chip to decrypt the image. So users need to have very sufficient
soldering skills and very careful and patient data recovery attitude. In this way, users may waste a
lot of time and increase the risk of damaging the chips or even the PCB and finally lose in the
competition.

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