Also do check out our other articles we have plenty of Tech related one for you. Also do leave a comment below as it’s always great to hear from you guys. If you found this tutorial useful by all means please share this article on social media. These drives have special connections such as in the case of this My passport Ultra that was used for this tutorial had a USB 3.0 connection where the SATA connection should have been which means these drives can only be used in these external drives. It was password protected from BIOS (some unfortunate guy locked it and forgot). Do note that these drives are not regular Hard drive that have a SATA connection and as a result they won’t work in Laptops or can be replaced by those drives. Unlock Western Digital HDD Using Master Password Today I spent nearly half day in trying to unlock Western Digital HDD. That’s it the drive is now out, you can do what need to be done to the device now. Carefully slide the drive out and hold it by the edges and avoid shocks as it may damage the drive.
There are no screws, the whole thing is held together by clips.Ĥ. The plastic clips will fly and the top will come right off. It may seem hard to get the tool into the groves of the drive but it can be done.ģ.When the tool gets into the groves slide it along the edges all around the drive. The groves are towards the top of the drive. So before you jump into conclusions, you need to understand the root of the problem. And hard disk errors can happen from both the hardware and software side of things. The small form factor means that WD My Passport repair is not the easiest one to do. Get the a plastic credit card like prying tool and carefully get it into the grooves of the drive. Everything about WD My Passport is great except one, reparability. Turn the My Passport external drive right side up.Ģ.
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