Unused WesternDigital Passport 320GB USB exterrnal HD for sale

[Ehud Karni]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:30:35 Stan Goodman wrote:
>
> The manual has a chapter about converting the drive to use with Mac
> boxes, how to reformat, and how to opt out of the "smart software". What
> it says one cannot do is avoid the need for a password. I am rethinking
> my offer of sale, reformating, and giving the  "smart software" the deep
> six. If the hidden partitions won't bother me, I can pretend that they
> aren't there.

I think you are wrong here. My understanding is that the "SmartWare"
software is erased and you can reload it.

My experience with other WD usb disks (not Passport) is that formatting
it with fdisk (I did it on 1.5 TB disks) to 1 partition does work as
expected - nothing is protected.

Ehud.


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