Western Digital My Passport SED with Encryption

[sashok07]

Hello,

I have an older external WD my passport (FBlite). The drive had a slow responding problem (fixed). I also converted it to sata but cant get into WD utility due to SED.

The drive is also encrypted with "WD Drive Unlock"; password works fine through USB but the drives got some bad sectors.

i never fixed SED on an encrypted/wd password protected drive. im assuming same rules apply and there is no danger but i thought I would ask first just in case. removing the SED check mark through drive id, will not effect or somehow screw up the encryption right!?

thank you!

[data-medics]

It won't make any permanent changes by disabling that, but the data will be encrypted after. Then you just need to set up the decryption in DE.

[sashok07]

It won't make any permanent changes by disabling that, but the data will be encrypted after. Then you just need to set up the decryption in DE.

Thank you, maybe I have done it once before then. I kind of vaguely remember being asked for the password in DE during decryption. Which was unusual because normally (especially the 3.5") WD HDD need to decrypted when used without the WD external enclosure. I guess that drive must have had a user set password.

So if I my memory is correct, during decryption DE will simply ask me for the password right?