If you aren't in law enforcement, and you're trying to access someone else's data, then the encryption is doing exactly what it's supposed to do by keeping you out of a place you don't belong. If you're a member of law enforcement, it should be easy enough to figure out what the 'usual password' is by serving up warrants to other accounts they have online, or by analyzing passwords saved in their computer browser, etc. I'm guessing that whoever put in the hint of 'the usual password' knows what the password is. However that doesn't mean someone couldn't buy one online and have it shipped into the country.

For the few where this type of encryption is illegal, WD sells models where the encryption has been disabled. In most civilized countries this is perfectly legal today. I am going to start a criminal procedure against them. In my opinion, under Spanish Criminal Code, WD business is ilegal. The software would not recognize at all any password. It's a shot in the dark but has anyone worked with the newer USB3 connected drives and would you know if bypassing the WD Unlock is possible with this setup.

It's now my understanding that MHDD is unable to assist unless we're dealing with an ATA drive and I've a hunch that a USB3 to SATA convertor cable won't help our situation either. The reason is that there is hardware level encryption in the WD Passport. The test drive that worked had a SATA interface but the customer drive has a USB3 connector soldered onto the PCB. In prep for trying to bypass the security we've set a password on a different drive (one of our techs), used MHDD and successfully recovered the password from the. The situation is all legit as he has provided us with a drive receipt and he's essentially wanting the pictures of his former dog recovered. I am an IT tech and I have a customer's WD My Passport 1TB drive which he's locked with the drive lock software & forgotten the password. x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'standard' format.An express 'thank you' to anyone who can confirm whether or not this might be possible. x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x04: 'AVX registers' x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x02: 'SSE registers' x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x01: 'x87 floating point registers' x86/fpu: xstate_offset: 576, xstate_sizes: 256 Code: Select all microcode: CPU0 microcode updated early to revision 0x24, date =

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