I mean, think about it. The person who is trying to decrypt the encrypted hard drive PHYSICALLY has the hard drive. There has to be some way to remove the insides of the hard drive and put it in a new one or something to completely ignore the encryption that happened. And how do they encrypt it? I mean, do they make modifications to the hard drive itself? It really confuses me how this works.
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The data itself is encrypted before it’s sent to the hard drive to be stored. The hard drive doesn’t handle the encryption step (although technically, iirc some solid state drives by default encrypt data with their own internal key to prevent an attack involving disassembling the drive)
Without the key, what’s written on the hard drive will just appear as random data.
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