I also like Craig3’s solution of turning off write caching, though I have not tried it yer. It seems to have disappeared from WD software. I also wonder what happened to the WD utility that I used to have (on a previous PC) that would re-lock and allow removal of the drive safely. The option to remove security will become available after this. If your unit uses WD Security, then please open WD Security and unlock your drive. I think that’s what the WD Erase utility does. The option will be located under Settings> Drive Settings> Security, It will ask you for your current password, and then it will give you an option named Remove Security. But maybe all I need to do to erase them is reformat them. I have already erased this yellow drive and relocked it using the new WD Security program. You need WD Utilities to do that, I think. This is a concern because of the problem with the security holes in WD’s hardware encryption that have been widely reported and discussed in this forum.Ī partial fix (supposedly) from WD for the security issue is to use a new version of the Security (lock drive) program after first erasing the drive. What you lose with not having WD Utils is the Erase function. Uninstalling the WD Utilities worked perfectly for me with a WD Yellow 2Tb drive.
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