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Re: Raw Data question
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:09 pm
by Hollywood691
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?
Re: Raw Data question
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:20 pm
by lcoughey
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?
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.
Re: Raw Data question
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:02 pm
by Hollywood691
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.
Re: Raw Data question
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:23 pm
by Hollywood691
Can I ask another question? When you get done Luke, will I be able to format that HD and use it again?
Re: Raw Data question
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:09 pm
by lcoughey
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?
In theory, yes. I'll look into that further after we deal with the initial issues of recovering the data.
Re: Raw Data question
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:36 pm
by Hollywood691
lcoughey wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:09 pm
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?
In theory, yes. I'll look into that further after we deal with the initial issues of recovering the data.
ahh, Ok,...sorry dont want to jump the gun lol