I had to respond yet again on WD board after seeing you and magnificent_starfish responses.......
and can I ask one more question? If you buy a new, say 4TB USB HD....WD, Seagte etc. It has their stuff on it to setup password or whatever (which I never do)......brand new can you format it and get rid of the encryption from the usb/sata bridge, so it wont be encrypted when written to right from the start as new?
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Western Digital drives do the encryption in the background. There is no option to disable it...at least not without a lot of screwing around.Hollywood691 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:09 pm I had to respond yet again on WD board after seeing you and magnificent_starfish responses.......
and can I ask one more question? If you buy a new, say 4TB USB HD....WD, Seagte etc. It has their stuff on it to setup password or whatever (which I never do)......brand new can you format it and get rid of the encryption from the usb/sata bridge, so it wont be encrypted when written to right from the start as new?
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ahh, ok. I was just curious....I had gotten a 4TB seagate expansion external HD to use as a destination media in the vision that i "thought" I could do it......I was just wondering if I could somehow set it to not encrypt.
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Can I ask another question? When you get done Luke, will I be able to format that HD and use it again?
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In theory, yes. I'll look into that further after we deal with the initial issues of recovering the data.Hollywood691 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:23 pm Can I ask another question? When you get done Luke, will I be able to format that HD and use it again?
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ahh, Ok,...sorry dont want to jump the gun lollcoughey wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:09 pmIn theory, yes. I'll look into that further after we deal with the initial issues of recovering the data.Hollywood691 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:23 pm Can I ask another question? When you get done Luke, will I be able to format that HD and use it again?