what the f***?
you are VERY lucky you idn't fry the drive yet with wires of tha size.

bridge the two points of r707. then connect the tx wire to the large point of the connector.

any but the liteon.

I am dumping it and warning you and everyone else: If I see any links to "free stuff" in ANY shape or form with a refferer number or name on them, you are banned.
You are only not getting banned immediately so people can read this warning from now on.

not unless you write your own app to do it. hdhackr only supports WD drives.

ram is encrypted.

this has been asked like 500 times already. NO.

It might not work when powered with just 3.3V.
You'll have to try it. However, you can even get the MAX3232 for free by ordering it as a sample from the maxim website.

not normal. it sounds like that drive may be defective. you should be getting read speeds of about 80 MB/s or so if it's connected directly to SATA.

no piracy support.

this has been discussed already in the big liteon thread.

you fried the controller chip. even if you could fix it, you'd have to replace the chip and with that you would not have your key anymore.

flashing won't do you any good since there is nothing to flash them with.

no. MS28 has firmware protection, MS25 does NOT. you need to use the vcc/10 sec trick to enable reading or writing, which you need the via card for.

enter key, click save, flash key sector back to it.

the key of the MB is firmly set, you can not change that or receive the key off that. you have to change the key on the drive to match the key of the MB.

no. the key is wrong. either you overwrote the key on the drive board with your old key (which doesn't match the new MB of course) or they sent you to the wrong drive board.

did it work before you flashed it?
did you dump the new board to get the new key before you flashed the firmware?

notepad isn't capable of displaying hex code.

no, ffs. and it will not happen anytime soon, if ever. the security didn't just magically disappear.

a damn screwdriver to hold onto 2 metal contacts.
just as you were already told.