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Wd2500yd hdd password locked???

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wd2500yd hdd password locked???
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Saturday May 3, 2008 01:40:29 PM
Hello,


Mmy brother and i were given a couple of 250 gig hdd's and tried to install them into our systems and found that we could not manage them in any way we went thru the typical venues by downloading the diags from the manuf website and tried to init them we finaly called wd and found that the hdd's were password locked
is there a way of retrieve the password or wipe the hdd w/out the orig software from the packaged hdd's we do not care if the data is wiped out.

Thanks in Advance.
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By 777bons, on Saturday May 3, 2008 03:17:50 PM Threaded discussions 
Hello


If the harddrives are 2.5" laptop drives then there is no method to use those drives. That is an anti-theft feature and is by design. That may be why they were given to you.
If they are desktop drives then read below. This spec would apply to other brands as well.

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Do Western Digital EIDE drives support hard drive locking?

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Current Western Digital ATA/100 EIDE and SATA drives support the ATA/ATAPI-6 specification, including the security mode settings. Some vendors use the security feature to ensure the usage of only specific drives in their system. The drives can also be locked by a third party utility. When a drive is locked using the ATA security mode settings, the same utility and the original code used to lock the drive are necessary to unlock the drive. If your drive has been locked, we recommend that you contact your system vendor or the manufacturer of the software utility that was used to lock the drive for assistance.
   
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