USB 2.0 - WDC External HDD [ Unlocking No D/R Required ]

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Hello ,
I Have a Old WD3200BMVV-11A9MS0 USB 2.0 Drive With Me .The Drive is Locked Using " Password That is Smartware Protection From WDC " . I Would Like To Use The Drive And Get Rid Of This Password .Data is Not Required At All .No Idea What Model External Family This Drive Was In

[data-medics]

The option is right within the smartware software. I think you just have to type a wrong password enough times and it gives the option to secure wipe the drive and reset it.

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

The option is right within the smartware software. I think you just have to type a wrong password enough times and it gives the option to secure wipe the drive and reset it.

Hi ,
To Be truthful i have never experimented with this .But what i will like to do eventually is Purchase Some SATA Boards And Then Convert this To Sata .Might be someone who has tried can shed some light

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

ATA Password or smartware password ?

Very easy to unlock both. If you don't care for the data.

$500 USD by paypal donnation or bitcoin equivalent ammount and i will teach you how to unlock the WD ATA pass and to erase a locked wd smartware drive with data loss.
Pm if interested.

Well,
Smartware Password Is What i Have Written .Plus [ All Your Work is Public Domain Lol , As You Have a Dirty Habit To Show Off Your Skills To All The World ] Really So No One Will Pay You a Penny " I Will Buy Some Lollipops .As Far As I Am Concerned I Can Research And Solve My Cases Without Your Help .Stop Targeting My Posts With Your Intelligence [ Shove It In Your Pocket ] . From Now On If You Do Not Like My Posts Kindly Do Not Bother To Post .As Far As I Am Concerned I Will Never Ask You a Thing [ Directly Or Indirectly ] .

PS : Please Do Not Target And Be So Upfront .You Are Not On HDDguru For Business .Everypost You Reply To Point People To Your Forums .You Are a Pure Example Of How a Forum Can Be Used And Targeted For Your Personal Gain .All Other People Are Also In Business But You a a Cheerleader In Misusing It .You Are So Verbal And Upfront That [ We Now Have 2 Spildits In The World " God Was So Merciful " + Two HDD Oracles Lol ] . Kindly Note Although I am a Indian My English Rocks Lol .Getting Hold Of HDD Tools Reading Security Modules Comparing a Non Password One With a Password One .Highlighting The Changes And Editing It With Your Hex Editor And Then Writing It Back [ You Call That Research Lol ] . Gimme a Few Days To Setup Some of My Office Work And If i Get The Time I Might Publish Some Of My Work .Specially MRT Pro .Catch You Soon On Acelab Forums [ Where You Leech Your Initial Knowledge About Everything lol ] .

[DRUG]

ATA Password or smartware password ?

Very easy to unlock both. If you don't care for the data.

$500 USD by paypal donnation or bitcoin equivalent ammount and i will teach you how to unlock the WD ATA pass and to erase a locked wd smartware drive with data loss.
Pm if interested.

Well,
Smartware Password Is What i Have Written .Plus [ All Your Work is Public Domain Lol , As You Have a Dirty Habit To Show Off Your Skills To All The World ] Really So No One Will Pay You a Penny " I Will Buy Some Lollipops .As Far As I Am Concerned I Can Research And Solve My Cases Without Your Help .Stop Targeting My Posts With Your Intelligence [ Shove It In Your Pocket ] . From Now On If You Do Not Like My Posts Kindly Do Not Bother To Post .As Far As I Am Concerned I Will Never Ask You a Thing [ Directly Or Indirectly ] .

PS : Please Do Not Target And Be So Upfront .You Are Not On HDDguru For Business .Everypost You Reply To Point People To Your Forums .You Are a Pure Example Of How a Forum Can Be Used And Targeted For Your Personal Gain .All Other People Are Also In Business But You a a Cheerleader In Misusing It .You Are So Verbal And Upfront That [ We Now Have 2 Spildits In The World " God Was So Merciful " + Two HDD Oracles Lol ] . Kindly Note Although I am a Indian My English Rocks Lol .Getting Hold Of HDD Tools Reading Security Modules Comparing a Non Password One With a Password One .Highlighting The Changes And Editing It With Your Hex Editor And Then Writing It Back [ You Call That Research Lol ] . Gimme a Few Days To Setup Some of My Office Work And If i Get The Time I Might Publish Some Of My Work .Specially MRT Pro .Catch You Soon On Acelab Forums [ Where You Leech Your Initial Knowledge About Everything lol ] .

He already gave me tons of advices without pointing me to hddoracle.

Your english rocks but it's strange the way you keep using caps lock in every word.

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

ATA Password or smartware password ?

Very easy to unlock both. If you don't care for the data.

$500 USD by paypal donnation or bitcoin equivalent ammount and i will teach you how to unlock the WD ATA pass and to erase a locked wd smartware drive with data loss.
Pm if interested.

Well,
Smartware Password Is What i Have Written .Plus [ All Your Work is Public Domain Lol , As You Have a Dirty Habit To Show Off Your Skills To All The World ] Really So No One Will Pay You a Penny " I Will Buy Some Lollipops .As Far As I Am Concerned I Can Research And Solve My Cases Without Your Help .Stop Targeting My Posts With Your Intelligence [ Shove It In Your Pocket ] . From Now On If You Do Not Like My Posts Kindly Do Not Bother To Post .As Far As I Am Concerned I Will Never Ask You a Thing [ Directly Or Indirectly ] .

PS : Please Do Not Target And Be So Upfront .You Are Not On HDDguru For Business .Everypost You Reply To Point People To Your Forums .You Are a Pure Example Of How a Forum Can Be Used And Targeted For Your Personal Gain .All Other People Are Also In Business But You a a Cheerleader In Misusing It .You Are So Verbal And Upfront That [ We Now Have 2 Spildits In The World " God Was So Merciful " + Two HDD Oracles Lol ] . Kindly Note Although I am a Indian My English Rocks Lol .Getting Hold Of HDD Tools Reading Security Modules Comparing a Non Password One With a Password One .Highlighting The Changes And Editing It With Your Hex Editor And Then Writing It Back [ You Call That Research Lol ] . Gimme a Few Days To Setup Some of My Office Work And If i Get The Time I Might Publish Some Of My Work .Specially MRT Pro .Catch You Soon On Acelab Forums [ Where You Leech Your Initial Knowledge About Everything lol ] .

He already gave me tons of advices without pointing me to hddoracle.

Your english rocks but it's strange the way you keep using caps lock in every word.

Thanks ,
Thats easy to solve .Plus even with title case " The message was clear " . I am glad he was able to give you tonns of advice which was useful to you and helped you understanding about Data Recovery better .Might be sometimes i could advice someone too like i used to do in the past .Hope to post some videos soon

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Jesus .... What do we have to teach to data recovery professionals nowadays ....

How to format a password protected (western digital) WD External Hard Drive :

(This is NOT HDDOra***.*** link)

http://www.myeasypc.info/index.php?opti ... &Itemid=55

Quote from the site :

■You will be prompted to enter the password
■Enter the password 5 times
■You will then be prompted with an option to delete/format the hard drive
■Tick the checkbox and proceed to format the disc
■The resultant external hard disc will be a clean formatted disc with no password protection software.

Spildit ,
No Need i told you i do not need your advice pecially when you make fun of a guy with intent .As i told you i could research and figure this out .My friend data-medics was helpful enough