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Hey everyone! Is there a way to unlock my Western digital external hard drive on this OS? Thanks! Any help will be great!

If you mean it's been "Password Protected"..??
Start with this "Thread"

Then there's more "like these"


Most seem to imply that you can only do it via WD Tools in Windows..!!!

(08-03-2016, 07:30 PM)Wirezfree link Wrote: [ -> ]If you mean it's been "Password Protected"..??
Start with this "Thread"

Then there's more "like these"


Most seem to imply that you can only do it via WD Tools in Windows..!!!

Hi! Yes, but I know the password. I just don't know how to open it on this OS.

From the threads I linked... It appears you can only do it from Windows using the WD Tools.
There was a mention in one of running the WD Tools in Wine... But there was no follow-up posts.??

Is it just locked with a password, or is the whole drive encrypted?
Is there an OS on the disk, or just file storage?
Some of these disks when used for storage are set to hide themselves from the OS. It may not even show up in Windows other than in its original system.

You may be able to access it with a Trinity Rescue Kit live CD, if you don't have a Windows OS available. I haven't used TRK for a while but you may be able to get at the disk with it. Check online to see if Aussie has something available for this situation. I use some of their tools (reg edit, defrag, etc.) occasionally with good success.

TC

(08-03-2016, 08:03 PM)Wirezfree link Wrote: [ -> ]From the threads I linked... It appears you can only do it from Windows using the WD Tools.
There was a mention in one of running the WD Tools in Wine... But there was no follow-up posts.??

This is what I got when I open it with wine. Any thoughts?

(08-03-2016, 09:26 PM)trinidad link Wrote: [ -> ]Is it just locked with a password, or is the whole drive encrypted?
Is there an OS on the disk, or just file storage?
Some of these disks when used for storage are set to hide themselves from the OS. It may not even show up in Windows other than in its original system.

You may be able to access it with a Trinity Rescue Kit live CD, if you don't have a Windows OS available. I haven't used TRK for a while but you may be able to get at the disk with it. Check online to see if Aussie has something available for this situation. I use some of their tools (reg edit, defrag, etc.) occasionally with good success.

TC

How can I know if it has OS on the disk? The only password I do is with the unlock.exe. Is there a way to know if the whole thing is encrypted?

Hi,

From a bit more Googling...
It does not matter what is on the disk, WD have implemented some of their "own code" in the disk hardware controller.
The WD Tools can access this on Windows/MAC... Simplest solution is to put the drive on Windows/MAC machine and un-lock...

I did find 1 reference, in "French" on doing something in directly in Linux, but is way beyond me.... code stuff
Open this link, in Google Chrome I right click the page and select translate...
NOTE: This was Ubuntu 12.04, so may not be valid any more..??

We must recover the python script wdpassport-utils to generate the password on github:
git clone https://github.com/KenMacD/wdpassport-utils.git

I'm quite having a trouble understanding this, not sure if I should download the zip or not.

It is a command line in terminal.??