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by support

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Hi,

I have a Wester Digital hard drive that has a hardware lock on it. Most data recovery programs do not even recognize the hard drive but some of them do and request a password to unlock it.

Note: The hard drive is not broken and I am not talking about windows password.

I need to remove this lock, any ideas?

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by why me worry?

Go to Western Digital's website and download a low level format utility, but realize that you will risk losing data on the drive.

by support

I had already thought of that, however I am trying to find some other options or at least find the right sectors to low level format so I can recover the remaining data.

by kretusiipinge

check the hard drive utility at list it my have the software enable it .

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