From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jun 24 18:04:35 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57348916296 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:04:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x233.google.com (mail-ie0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 221331AF3 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:04:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by iecvh10 with SMTP id vh10so38639761iec.3 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:04:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HulfvzYAPPB6+IRUUuXWMbFTEL4k/ClsvHRJj/yp0aU=; b=XoHKsQ0mBPr5virose94NDvOG4DNRO11eddmjs3i2scqkfIutC/9KTSB/qUrsxrPeD DHxjwZWs4JUdV52PwPThPrWwcvuIKfLfgeZuRlUNNGLkqGwdCB+YoG0z7deIk+zzm4kI 2HcDVXSYU5MiOK6ZkHcLtDkZm8O12jO/4yohjsxq8qPsmOjlnTKQF8rPU/W6aNe1SHYI mI4HqPLjn//v+a6fHSDoYgonNkIvl+57xP8GZhrIf9ZnnJ/UdSXoa54tDJ5ti1fYNuJT fhhPG5KT+luHIZCHZpn5qIp+pWY6jGfGhZ1/bWczsqULQ6GI75eYTNnZ9y/eNEPX2AWV jY9w== X-Received: by 10.42.30.208 with SMTP id w16mr39090692icc.88.1435169074520; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b74sm17774320ioe.6.2015.06.24.11.04.33 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <558AF130.3060705@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:04:32 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard drive problem References: <5589E2F9.3070604@gmail.com> <20150624161014.GC29635@satellite.workgroup.local> In-Reply-To: <20150624161014.GC29635@satellite.workgroup.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:04:35 -0000 On 06/24/2015 10:10 AM, Joshua Lokken wrote: > On Jun/23 04:51PM, jd1008 wrote: >> does anyone have a way to unlock the master pword in >> a recent WD 2TB 2.5" drive? > Unfortunately, I know of only Windoze tools to do this: > > hddunlock.com > > Or you can try WD's tool, WD Security. > > hddunlock unfortunately does not supprt the drive model at hand and is expensive - not worth buying :) As I said in another reply, drives are getting cheaper and cheaper per terabyte. Actually it is the smaller legacy drives that are now rising in price because they are no longer manufactured, and many laptop owners' computers cannot host the new larger capacity drives.